Somehow it does not look like the most urgent problem to me - but then again I am old, white and male. 😊
On Tue 18. Jul 2023 at 11:23, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not opposed to doing this. Most other projects have also done it, > so it would be inline with that. It also has the advantage that "main" > is a much clearer term to newbies than "master". > > But note that this is not a trivial thing to do, which is why it > hasn't happened yet. It's not as simple as just renaming the branch. > We also have to fix all the references to "master" everywhere, > including making sure that all our automation and release scripts > still work. > > There's also an unfortunate downside of doing this, which is that > anyone who already has a clone of the repo and is using "git checkout > master; git pull" will have their workflows broken when master stops > being updated. I don't know if there's a clean way we can do anything > about that. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 9:25 PM Sangyub Lee <sylee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I think that github decided to do that in 2020. > > And the main reason to do this is that 'master' is agreed to be > politically offensive terminology: > > > > Rename offensive terminology (master) - Simon Pieters (kernel.org) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/8037a96f-4d4c-48ca-9139-56bec7f5217en%40googlegroups.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2BXo0N89GQb%2BzHHjCSW%3DA-gkmMsnDEOi0ene7r%3DfOXBhQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- Best regards, Peter Stahlecker -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CABKqA0bj5Auo8vw3YvrFBLFHGz3_yOC8tzwYAwEhJkzzk7gD_Q%40mail.gmail.com.
