hyperledger/indy-plenum

Rename master branch

brentzundel opened this issue · 1 comments

Summary

We should rename the branch master to main and use that going forward for our work.

From Problematic Terminology in Open-Source on master/slave terminology in software:

Use of this term is problematic. It references slavery to convey meaning about the relationship between two entities.

Removing this terminology from our workflow is a small gesture to include more people from marginalized groups in this project.

(I’m open to names other than main)

Technical Steps

  • create main branch from master
  • make main the default GitHub branch
  • modify github/central to use main for release notes reloading
  • redirect PRs to main in hyperledger/indy-plenum
  • move branch protections from master to main
  • modify docs to reference main instead of master
  • delete master branch to avoid confusion?

Feedback?

Done