[justaj]

There's already incredible amount of documentation around that uses the word "master". (New) people getting aboard will undoubtedly read the (now stale) documentation and get confused, confusion results in questions, questions result in discussions and discussions take time away from the already overburdened FOSS contributors that make great things happen.

All of this to give an appearance that social change is happening? Why not address the social issues head-on?

[syspec]

This only affects new repositories