[mixmastamyk]

My spidey sense first got tingling a few years ago when the Python powers decided they were going to rename their git master branch to something else. Caused them unnecessary work and to this day it's not certain any developer or user actually asked for it. The word has multiple meanings of course; yet felt like a symbolic gesture to alleviate guilt totally unrelated to Python.

I didn't complain without a dog in the hunt, but I noticed those that did were implied to be monsters, and told that their mild disagreement "would not look good to history." Unfortunately a few years later I can say the opposite.

Well, Guido made his bed, now it's time to lie in it. ;-)

[cool_dude85]

>Unfortunately a few years later I can say the opposite.

It's your contention that people getting up in arms about not changing the name of the 'master' branch specifically look good now, with hindsight? Can't say I agree.

[mixmastamyk]

You’ve reframed the disagreement about unnecessary work as “up in arms.” They look like sane folks who recommended not doing purely symbolic work.

Something substantial perhaps, say promoting under-represented folks within psf would be something. You can’t eat branch names.

[zahlman]

For what it's worth, David Mertz would agree with you (https://discuss.python.org/t/why-im-leaving-discuss-python-o...).

He got kicked out, too.

[Izkata]

That the people implying they were monsters were the actual monsters.

[animuchan]

We can mostly agree that the people acting on the irresistible urge to rename git branches specifically look bad now.

Turns out it's a slippery slope, who would've thunk.

[zahlman]

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