• nutomicA
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    4 years ago

    On the other hand, this doesnt have any negative consequences. In the worst case, it will do nothing but piss off right-wingers, and then it would still be worth the effort for me.

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      4 years ago

      Assuming this is intended to be a publicity stunt, my biggest problem with this is that they’re using a massive issue like racism as essentially a marketing tool. IMO this waters down the importance of the issue and is all around disrespectful.

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      4 years ago

      Agree, this is good fly paper. Changing it is painless anyway.

      I saw someone on that reddit thread say, “master bedroom doesn’t have any negative connotations” lol.

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        Changing it is painless anyway.

        This could break a lot of Git scripts, CI/CD configurations and probably a bunch of other stuff.

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      if they do it retro-actively it will break a lot of projects. hopefully they do not, but github kinda has a history of deprecating older methods of doing things (look at the github app).

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        I don’t think they can retroactively change everything. Some projects don’t even have their ‘master’ copy on GitHub. I think they will probably just change default behavior on new projects.

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      “In the worst case, it will do nothing but piss off right-wingers, and then it would still be worth the effort for me.”

      And do you expect it to change their minds? Because pissing people rarely does. Pissing people off closes their minds to you and the influence you might have had. Oblivious meaningless pandering just makes everyone roll their eyes.

      The word master has had and still has meaning completely unrelated to human slavery, pretending one use of the word should dictate the ability to use all other uses is asinine.

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        4 years ago

        Its probably not possible to change their mind, so I’m happy if they stay as far away as possible.

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        I think that people that get pissed off about this are going to get pissed off about any small change to their lives due to people trying to help with equality. So nobody should be worry about pissing off snow flakes like that when real progress could be made. Not that I think the change to the word ‘master’ in software development is actual progress.