Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

[Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>]

Am Mi., 1. Mai 2019 um 01:07 Uhr schrieb Michael Gratton <mike vee net>:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 17:53, Daniel Mustieles García
> <daniel mustieles gmail com> wrote:
> > What has happened with this? We have a repo with a non-standard
> > branch name and no consensus for a global change, do we?
>
> Just trying to find the time to write up a summary of where we are at
> and a draft plan to move forward.

But the argument that a master branch would imply slavery was not
convincing to me and many others.  Why, then, is work in this
direction apparently continuing?

I think everyone is willing to go to reasonable lengths to avoid
direct references to actual offensive terms.  But there were many
objections to this change.  Some are practical and will persist even
if the change does not cause errors (non-conformity to a reasonable
default, learning/tutorials, ...).  Another reason why a lot of us
don't like this change, I think, is that we are also users of the
English language and don't much appreciate being told how to think:
Using the word 'inclusive' all the while steamrolling extremely
specific and far-fetched ideas of some US movement upon a broad
international community is frankly not a prime example of
inclusiveness in my book.  What distinguishes this from the direct
'slavery' case is that you actually need to point to a long list of
meanings in the Dictionary, then pick and choose.  This is outside the
scope of 'going to reasonable lengths'.

I nominate the simplest plan for 'moving forward'.

Best regards
Ask

> Oh that though, Daniel, I asked you back on the i18n thread when the
> last time you had a problem working on Geary's translations with
> Damned-Lies, but you never got back to me. Can you say when that was?
> If you have a specific date that would be super helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> //Mike
>
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