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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