Hi all, I think it would be worthwhile to remove any potential problematic language. I don't think Java has been identified as being problematic.
And I agree with Robert that it would be good to look inside the code as well. Best regards, David On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 10:14, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:00 AM Nicolas Peltier <npelt...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > i guess we would need opinions of people that are on the wrong side of > the > > domination.. > > I see what you mean but I'm not sure if anyone is dominated by Git > master branches...that's my point ;-) > > Let me just quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Asia: > > > The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between 4 and 10 > million romusha > > (Japanese: "manual laborer"), were forced to work by the Japanese > military.[63] > > So, are we going to rename Java as well? > > BTW I regret the "waste of time" statement in my last message - what I > mean is that I'm not going to spend any time helping for this myself > as I don't think it makes an actual difference. > > But if someone wants to spend time on this (including fixing all the > subtle scripting/automation issues that might arise) I won't oppose > it, even if I don't think renaming the master branch will make an > actual difference in our world. > > -Bertrand >
