Re: [Tei-council] Git branch naming

2 Jul 2020


      Would it make sense to try to do this (for TEI and Stylesheets) around the
upcoming release then? We could create a "main" branch basically now (or
immediately after we complete the fight about what to call it 😁) from
master and then do the work to make sure everything ends up in main at
release time, then remove master.

Hugh

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:47 AM Jessica Lu  wrote:
...
Thank you, Hugh, for opening this conversation up among Council. Should be
no surprise that I'm fully in favor of getting rid of 'master' and 'slave'
language whenever possible.
I appreciate the points everyone else has raised upthread, and am
heartened by Elisa's observation that this may be an opportune time to
experiment with how such a change will impact the build process. Hugh and
Nicholas are certainly right in pointing out that performative actions
often hinder or distract from more substantive changes in practice and
process; but (1) this is the sort of change that can have a big impact in
Black and brown folks' encounters with TEI, insofar as it would dissolve an
unnecessary barrier and guttural negative response to the grammar of
encoding work; and (2) I think the spirit and intention behind this change
does and can continue to carry forward into Council's everyday work.
In general, my approach with these things is: if it's a small thing, why
not change it (in addition to tackling bigger things), and if it's a big
thing, better to start now than later.
-j.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:27 AM Martin Holmes  wrote:
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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
...
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
On 2020-07-02 8:00 a.m., Hugh Cayless wrote:
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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