Hi Michael, i read this list with interest because its a controversial topic. What i want to know: lets take the approach and rename all master-branches to something different. Anyone thought about that this will lead to more usage of master than it is used now? People will come up in IRC and will ask where is the master branch. And you have to discuss this probably with every newcomer that we changed it because master is not inclusive enough. And then you have to discuss the same topic with every newcomer exactly like it is discussed here.
You even have to write it down on newcomer landing pages. "Our master branch is called mainline because ..." I think this change will pull the word more in the middle then in the background. Just my 2 cents Günther On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 21:38 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 13:16, Ernestas Kulik <ernest...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 21:08 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote: > > > In the end, as the experience Python has had clearly shows, we > > > will > > > gain much, much more by being inclusive than we lose by > > > entertaining > > > a small minority who would rather we aren't. > > > > Excuse me if I missed this, but can you elaborate on what has > > clearly > > been shown? > > After deliberately setting out to make the project more inclusive, > Python has reversed a five-year-long trend of declining number of > core > devs and it has been increasing ever since. They have for example, > in > the last three years gone from having 0 to 4 women who are core devs. > > They have also been successful in getting other projects to use more > inclusive language. For example, MongoDB initially refused to stop > using the term "master", but then relented after Python did so. > GNOME > could be in a similar position of leadership here, since it's pretty > clear /someone/ needs to be the first to do the right thing to get > others moving as well. > > //Mike > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
