Alexander, Any PRs that aren't trivially rebased against the current prototype/fdb-layer will by definition break regardless of what we call our default branch moving forward.
Paul On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:11 AM Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m in favour and I think the FDB merge is a nice opportunity to take > the plunge. > > Best > Jan > — > > On 9. Sep 2020, at 17:40, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Howdy Folks! > > > > Words matter. I've just started a thread on merging all of the > > FoundationDB work into mainline development and thought this would be > > a good time to bring up a separate discussion on renaming our default > > branch. > > > > Personally, I've got a few projects where I used `main` for the > > mainline development branch. I find it to be a fairly natural shift > > because I tab-complete everything on the command line. I'd be open to > > other suggestions but I'm also hoping this doesn't devolve into a > > bikeshed on what we end up picking. > > > > For mechanics, what I'm thinking is that when we finish up the last > > rebase of the FoundationDB work that instead of actually pushing the > > merge/rebase button we just rename the branch and then change the > > default branch on GitHub and close the PR. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Paul >
