Rename "master" branch to "main"?

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> That said I think this is not as important as other, similar, changes
> we could make.  For instance, the term "master" is used _along with_
> "slave" in manual/terminal.texi, and I fully intend to rewrite that
> chapter to eliminate that terminology as soon as I find the time.

Are you going to propose different terms for the next revision of POSIX 
(the first draft of issue 8 was recently released for review, but it's 
still at an early stage of development, with major changes such as 
alignment with the current version of the C standard yet to come, so there 
should be time to include such a change)?  People need to be able to match 
terminology used in GNU documentation with that used in external 
documentation.  In the short term that means we need to state what the 
corresponding POSIX terminology is.  In the longer term, it would clearly 
be desirable for POSIX and GNU to have the same new terminology for 
referring to pseudo-terminals, rather than for them to pick different 
terminology independently.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com