Perfect!! This political correctness of the language, which has become a big issue in my mother tongue, German, only serves to distract from the real problems.
On Tue 18. Jul 2023 at 12:14, Hanspeter “Hanspi” Schmid < hanspeter.sch...@fhnw.ch> wrote: > Somehow I find this very disturbing. Why does everyone seem to be so sure > that master must be understood (and therefore shunned) as half of > master-slave instead of half of master-apprentice or master-bachelor or > master-junior? Am I from now on forbidden to master a technique? Should I > stop listening to master violinists? Do we have to abandon or rename Master > programs after the Bachelor programs? > > I totally agree that terms like 'master-slave flip-flop' must be changed. > However, there have never been slave branches on github, and making this > change totally means bringing the present political upheavalsof mainly one > big country into a international, technical context where it really does > not belong. > > So yes, I am totally opposed to doing this. As long as you can still get a > Master degree at a single American university, I do not even consider one > second of the SymPy's development team well spent on this issue. > peter.st...@gmail.com schrieb am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2023 um 06:26:09 > UTC+2: > >> 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 <asme...@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 <syle...@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+un...@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+un...@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/60227193-d9cf-4522-a4b8-863c484add13n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/60227193-d9cf-4522-a4b8-863c484add13n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABKqA0aN6P32vXQzJ7zBE%2B96CQZWp5oJV8xMJ4dLQfco%2BjbkzQ%40mail.gmail.com.
