On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 06:45:50PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 17:50 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> > > that should be avoided.
> > > If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to
Hi Otto,
Thank you for providing an alternative voice in this discourse.
Otto Kekäläinen writes:
> Hello!
>
> Just my 2 cents: I hope Debian would not rush to any changes here.
> Lets just stay neutral for now. The subject seems very US-centric and
> there is a risk that it is creating
Hi,
Le 22/06/2020 à 05:50, Michael Biebl a écrit :
[…]
> If we deem that [whatever] is a better term, should we change the defaults
> in salsa/gitlab and maybe update DEP-14?
FWIW, I’d welcome such change, (almost) whatever name end up being used
instead of “master”. If we agree on such change
Hello!
Just my 2 cents: I hope Debian would not rush to any changes here.
Lets just stay neutral for now. The subject seems very US-centric and
there is a risk that it is creating division among people forcing them
to take sides on issues that previously were not political at all.
Here is some
On 24-06-2020 12:56, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Colin Watson dijo [Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:13:31PM +0100]:
>> I think my ranked preferences are:
>>
>> 1. devel (for the sorts of reasons smcv@ gave; also, debian/devel is a
>> nice allusion to this list)
>> 2. trunk (historical familiarity from
Colin Watson dijo [Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:13:31PM +0100]:
> I think my ranked preferences are:
>
> 1. devel (for the sorts of reasons smcv@ gave; also, debian/devel is a
> nice allusion to this list)
> 2. trunk (historical familiarity from other VCSes)
> 3. main or maybe mainline (some
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:40:47AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Not really. The master/slave metaphor prompted me to think about this
> sort of thing more and give it a higher priority, that's all. I still
> think we'd be better off using a different name.
So use a different metaphor. For git,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:14:37AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> On 2020-06-23 02:12, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:10:31AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >>> [1]
> >>>
On 2020-06-23 08:14, Christian Kastner wrote:
> If it's not, then it's just about utility, and then honestly I don't see
> enough of it to merit the head-ache of breaking with the conventional name.
Having thought about that part some more, I realized I need to retract it.
I might not see the
On 2020-06-23 02:12, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:10:31AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>>> [1]
>>> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html
>>
>> You might be interested in [2] as well.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:10:31AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > For a while I'd thought that it was relatively harmless in comparison
> > to
> > full-blown uses of master/slave metaphors, but I saw some analysis of
> > the history recently that
Am Mo., 22. Juni 2020 um 23:30 Uhr schrieb Colin Watson :
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 05:50:02PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> > that should be avoided.
> > If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to
On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> For a while I'd thought that it was relatively harmless in comparison
> to
> full-blown uses of master/slave metaphors, but I saw some analysis of
> the history recently that pointed out that git got it from BitKeeper
> which did in fact use
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:13:31PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 05:50:02PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> > that should be avoided.
> > If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 05:50:02PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> that should be avoided.
> If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the
> default master branch to main.
> I don't really have any
Den mån 22 juni 2020 kl 20:03 skrev Simon McVittie :
>
> > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 17:50 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> > > that should be avoided.
> > > If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change
> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 17:50 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> > that should be avoided.
> > If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the
> > default master branch to main.
> > I don't really have
Michael Biebl writes:
> there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> that should be avoided.
> If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the
> default master branch to main.
> I don't really have any strong opinion on that matter myself.
>
On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 17:50 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
> that should be avoided.
> If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the
> default master branch to main.
> I don't really have any strong
Hi,
there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term
that should be avoided.
If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the
default master branch to main.
I don't really have any strong opinion on that matter myself.
That said, what I care about is
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