The "default" is name is just a convention. It can be other things and after a 
few days of "teething" issues, and everyone will be back to being as productive 
as they are right now.

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Subject: Re: The blacklist / master issue

I think master is the default branch name in any Git repository. It's not about 
Django and even not GitHub. Do you want to change the default branch name in 
Git?
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:28 PM Tom Carrick 
<t...@carrick.eu<mailto:t...@carrick.eu>> wrote:
This ticket was closed 
wontfix<https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/31670#ticket> as requiring a 
discussion here.

David Smith mentioned this Tox 
issue<https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1491> stating it had been closed, 
but to me it seems like it hasn't been closed (maybe there's something I can't 
see) and apparently a PR would be accepted to add aliases at the least (this is 
more recent than the comment on the Django ticket).

My impetus to bring this up mostly comes from reading this ZDNet 
article<https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/>
 - it seems like Google have already made moves in this direction and GitHub is 
also planning to. Usually Django is somewhere near the front for these types of 
changes.

I'm leaning towards renaming the master branch and wherever else we use that 
terminology, but I'm less sure about black/whitelist, though right now it seems 
more positive than negative. Most arguments against use some kind of 
etymological argument, but I don't think debates about historical terms are as 
interesting as how they affect people in the here and now.

I don't think there is an easy answer here, and I open this can of worms 
somewhat reluctantly. I do think Luke is correct that we should be concerned 
with our credibility if we wrongly change this, but I'm also worried about our 
credibility if we don't.

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