I'm going to gently disagree with you, Martin. I think it's precisely us
old white people who need to work on picking apart the threads of
structural racism and not put that work off on others. But I understand and
sympathize with your reluctance to pronounce on this issue!
All the best,
Hugh
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 10:31 AM Martin Holmes
Hi all,
My gut feeling is that old white males like me should have no part in a decision like this. We have (I hope) a large enough community of TEI users who don't fall into my category, and they should tell us what's appropriate.
Cheers, Martin
On 2020-07-02 7:01 a.m., Hugh Cayless wrote:
Hi All,
Some of you may have come across the recent move toward changing the default branch name in Git away from "master" to (probably) "main". My understanding is that GitHub is working on this, and that it will probably happen in Git as well. I'm aware of a number of projects that are moving ahead immediately on renaming their master branches.
On the one hand, I'm generally in favor of this. The "master" terminology probably came from BitKeeper, which had "master" and "slave" repositories (rather than branches). I had always assumed it was meant in the sense of "master copy", like in sound recordings. But see also https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577 from the person responsible for the name (not a native English speaker).
On the other hand, I'm slightly cynical about this sort of thing, as it's the kind of change one can make and feel righteous about without being *actually* significantly anti-racist. It's a bit performative, but sometimes it's important to set an example.
So I think we should consider going through the renaming process for TEI repos. There are probably some implications to doing that, broken links being the first one that comes to mind. What do you all think?
Hugh
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