Do we have to change "master's thesis" or "golden master" or "scrum master", too? No, because that is a different word!
Now what I really did find off-putting is the use of master in "master and slave", as in IDE drives or in I2C. When I first heard it I didn't really bother me personally, but I was confused why somebody would choose such an inappropriate analogy. I would totally be ok with changing that to something more neutral.
But hypersensitivity to these matters seems to have taken the tech world by storm, and we live in a largely US-led ASCII/UTF-8 where strings of characters are sometimes imbued with magical meanings, so…
Saving the world, one codebase at a time!
I visited most of the world but as a tourist you don't always see deep cultural problems that may be present. I do know the US education system teaches a very United States centric view of slavery. It's literally as if they don't acknowledge that slavery was a worldwide thing and that even during the times of the primary civil rights struggle in the United States slavery of people was still an actual thing in other parts of the world.
So I have real genuine curiosity to know are we alone in the world in this hyper apologetic attitude to the point we cannot use terms like these in engineering context?
However we also have a set of sensitive topics - slavery just isn't one of them.
I can easily picture some naming schemes analogous to master/slave that would be considered unfortunate choices here...
In that sense it's a US thing, but also isn't.
There are also some hits when searching for "esclave" (French for slave) and lots of when searching for "slave" in our internal doc. That's not representative of all of France, just a small data point of myself and a few things around me.
From my perspective, this seems like a "United States phenomenon" way more than a "western phenomenon". I've spent some time in school studying what we call the triangular trade in school (middle and high school), and I remember some English courses where we talked about slavery and civil rights in the US. But slavery itself is rarely a subject, even for people really invested in social justice (at least the ones I know/hear about). In my experience, people talk about racism, but not from the angle of slavery.
Again, fair disclaimer: I'm not representing all of France, Europe or anything. I'm just a French person and this is my perspective on things.
It is emphatically a US thing that irritates nearly every other culture (outside of some well-assimilated fringe groups). That said, the US exports it's culture far and wide in the guise of it's technological platforms. As such, you cannot escape it.
Will it help anything? Absolutely not. However there’s a few people out there that can now say that they forced a company or a project to change its racist ways. In my opinion, it makes the decision makers of those companies look very weak
I've seen many examples of Europeans attempting to copy american wokeism, but without accounting for the different history.
In the UK, for example, police literally collect "non-crime hate incidents" and add them to people's criminal record. No due process, no actual convictions of crime, but you get a record of heresy accusations if you ask the government whether someone's broken the law.
It was about state's rights.
> Sorry . We've tried very hard to message this over the past 3 months, emitting warning messages. Please also note that it appears GitHub Actions also appears to be having issues, which is unrelated to our change. If you are seeing general build failures, it might be due to the GitHub issue.
Apparently not sorry enough to not shoulder unnecessary work on people for the sole purpose of powertripping and proclaiming their own amazing goodness.
Power, remember, is the ability to get people to do what you want them to, and it is felt when it is exercised. They exercised power so they could smell the sweet aroma of their own farts.
"Master" references mainly mastery, being good at it. Master is an official craftsman job title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister μήστωρ, Meister, Magister.
You wont find someone who dares to rename masterpieces to mainpieces.
And yet you can have a sidepiece...
The final copy of that release, guess what they call it - master
I guarantee you there is an activist insane enough to do just that.
The years-long transition where both namings are in use, will however be worse than either alone. This is always the way: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI4EJwqX0AAvnxD.png
Not really. "master" clearly meant "master copy" - the copy with everything in it. What does "main" mean? There is no "main". Git is distributed.
It's distributed into https://github.com
i.e. not in any real sense at all.
Ultimately you'd just end up with scripts that have to check for both main and master branch
(that makes sense; there has been a warning in place for a long time, and pinning to a name can be risky when the content within that reference may change over time)
