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

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 13:46, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com> 
wrote:
> Also what does Python have to do with this?  What specific gains came
> from renaming their branch?  https://github.com/python/cpython .  It
> looks to me like they did not rename the branch.  This sort of stuff
> has been pointed out to you in several places yet you keep
> perpetuating it.

See my reply to Ernestas as to why Python is relevant.

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> 
wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 12:38, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> wrote:
> >  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.
>
> That's misrepresenting it *AGAIN*. Both stopped using master along
> with slave. The main developer branch is still called master in both
> projects.

I'm not sure how you can argue that someone *not* having done something 
demonstrates it would have no effect?

Since there are no technical barriers and since we have a way of 
seamlessly handling backwards compatibility, why don't we try this and 
see how well it works?

//Mike

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