Re: [Tei-council] Git branch naming

2 Jul 2020

      Hi Hugh,

I take your point, but I was thinking really that rather than doing the 
archetypal "here let me fix that for you" thing that we tend to default 
into, we should do more of the "shut up, step back and get out of the 
way" approach proposed by Deb Verhoeven at DH2015.

Cheers,
Martin

On 2020-07-02 8:00 a.m., Hugh Cayless wrote:
...
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 mailto:mholmes@uvic.ca> wrote:
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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