Rename "master" branch to "main"?

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

* release/2.32/master -> release/2.32/main

This proposal is only about the development branch and upcoming release
branch. Please start a new thread to discuss the historical branch names
or other relevant issues.

My concern is that git, as a project, has not yet changed their default,
and it would be beneficial to match their default name. I am OK with
waiting for the git project to make a choice before changing our branch
name to match.

Comments?

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Cheers,
Carlos.