Re: Heads up: Geary mainline development branch renamed to `mainline`

[Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>]

Dear all,

Having a master branch does not imply slavery anymore than chess
master, masterpiece, jedi master, or master of science in engineering,
but not having a master branch, and particularly having inconsistent
branch names, means extra real work for real people, and particularly
those who work with branches of multiple projects.  Please do
reconsider this change.

If we must change, and if they change the default name in git, could
we at least wait some years until everything is figured out and
reaches stable OS packages?

Best regards
Ask

Am Mi., 24. Apr. 2019 um 12:01 Uhr schrieb Daniel Mustieles García via
gnome-i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>:
> El mié., 24 abr. 2019 a las 11:25, Carmen Bianca Bakker (<carmen carmenbianca eu>) escribió:
> > Je mer, 2019-04-24 je 10:32 +0200, Andre Klapper skribis:
> > > > , as exposed in #324), but coherence across modules should be kept.
> > >
> > > I agree that it would be good to consider renaming all master branches.
> >
> > Then mightn't it be better to bring up the topic with GNOME and/or Git
> > upstream?
>
>
> This is exactly what I meant when said "consider".
>
> > Because it would be a bit of a mess if every project could
> > decide for themselves what to call their master/mainline branch. For
> > infrastructure reasons, it seems to me that it would be best if the
> > name of that branch were uniform.
> >
> > I would like that name to be something other than "master", which is a
> > bit clunky, inaccurate, and prone to cause offence, but I'd rather have
> > that than a broken infrastructure.
>
>
> I don't think "master" causes any kind of offence, but this is just a question of appreciation.
>
> Of course, If we consider this topic is enough important to take into account, we should open a new thread 
> involving d-d-l and maybe other teams (Releaste team, Infrastructure...). But is this thread we are just 
> discussing if Geary's maintainer should revert the change, at least until a final decission has been taken.
>
> I've exposed some arguments to revert it, the main one is that Damned Lies is currently broken due to this 
> name change. You can see it in the screenshot.
> In the other hand, opening the door to change the name of the master branch in every module will result in 
> a very big mess, broken scripts, etc.
>
> Cheers
>
> > With kindness,
> > Carmen
> >
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