On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > A few years ago we had the initalitive to get rid of problematic terms > like "master"/"slave". Git changed its default branch name to 'main', > we changed our default dist-git name to 'rawhide' (*). We also > adjusted various terms in documentation in many places. > > But some pockets of stale naming remain. It'd be great to finally clean > this up and achieve consistency! For owners of various repos, can you > please do just do the rename. Users will understand and adjust (**). > > I'm aware of: > - https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/tree/master, a.k.a. > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1098. > - anything with 'master' in > https://gitlab.com/fedora/docs/docs-website/docs-fp-o/-/blob/stg/site.yml#L109 > > Please reply with other examples so we can have a TODO list. > (Not just branch names, but that is the least-effort/most-obvious place > to start.) > > Zbyszek > > > (*) In hindsight, using a branch name that matches its purpose seems … natural. > Why didn't we do this earlier? > Because a lot of git frontends didn't support this properly. We actually added features to Pagure to support the transition, some of which aren't present still in other forges. I actually wanted this for years because I locally maintain git repos of packages that I maintain or review across multiple distributions, so having distributions use unique default branch names makes it easier for me to mirror and push all of them into a single repository. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
