![]() ![]() So yes, word master can be used in a slavery context, but that is not our context. That culture and context is quite different than the culture of an open-source git repo that is by common understanding inclusive, global, open, welcoming, and merit-based. The request to change this word seems to arise from the grievance culture, which universalizes the semantic domains of certain buzzwords across contexts and tries to remove those words from every context, as a way to cleanse away ideas they perceive as offensive. This is my perception as a native speaker of English at my age (45) in the context of a software development community. Example: A “master” chef could be a male or a female. Should be master renamed to mainline due to moral conflicts?ĭoes the word master in git branch name really evoke slavery for native English speakers?ĭo these words really convey the sense of maleness? ![]() Moreover, this fails to address the thousands of people who already have local copies of GNOME project repositories. There will still be tools that will use master by default, for example when running git init. To make that easier we have tooling support (auto-completion in both GUIs and TUIs, the ability to set things as defaults, code symbol lookup, etc.). (is mainline some sort of power line?) Or should I rather bring up the GNOME logo discussion again? I could easily take an offense at the efforts to deprecate common words and phrases in favour of ones I am, as a non-native English speaker, less familiar with. There will always be some things that are offensive to someone. ![]() Yes it doesn’t matter to many people, but it does matter to some, and that’s the whole point of making a project more socially inclusive - to make it better for everyone Again, as a non-native English speaker, I have to ask, do these words really convey the sense of maleness? Because they certainly do not to me, especially not in the context of physical objects or in the verb meaning “to learn to a high degree of proficiency” ( wiktionary).Īnd to address Michael’s post on the mailing list: Now I see, that in the linked document, they are not concerned with slavery but, rather, what they perceive as gendered speech. ![]()
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