Rename "master" branch to "main"?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 7/3/20 11:22 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> On 30/06/2020 19:10, Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> Community,
>>
>> As we approach the release boundary for 2.32 we come to a natural point
>> where we can rename our development and release branch.
>>
>> Red Hat CTO Chris Wright wrote about this recently:
>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language
>>
>> LWN also wrote about this recently in "Loaded terms in free software":
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
>>
>> Github is committed to changing the default development branch to "main":
>> https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312
>>
>> There are open requests for Gitlab to adopt "main" as the default branch name:
>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/220906
>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/222204
>>
>> My proposal would be to rename the development and current release branch:
>>
>> * master -> main
> 
> 
> Why?

Do the above links provide enough background regarding the justification?

Are you requesting that I summarize it here?

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Cheers,
Carlos.