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by KaiserPro 3 hours ago
Name changes are controversial. Nothing gets nerds going more than changing a project name so companies work better with OSS.
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Yes, I know, but that all just underscores what I said about it being emotional. Logically it's not only Wacom but for any tablet. It would do better with a new name as other competitors would help. But the emotional resistance to changing the name keeps those logical improvements form happening.
Second hardest thing in CS besides cache invalidation and off by one errors....
Don't concurrency. forget about
True nerds name things properly in the first place. The liberal use of -wacom throughout project names and repositories is a consequence of the Wacom itch being scratched - and then that scratch becoming the base upon which Wacoms' competitors can participate. A true nerd would've skipped including the brand in a directory name, in the first place .. I bet these drivers started off being written by graphics designers, not nerds.
just change the name to mocaW
Yet name changes happen easily when legally forced. Wireshark, MariaDB, and LibreOffice.
main vs master
The issue has always been with the reasons invoked to make the change

Otherwise it would have been smoother

You didn't hear the foaming at the mouth shouting to rename master recordings, master documents, or dub over The Master from Dr. Who.

Considering how much effort we had to out into fixing pipelines because of hardcoded scripts, and the lack of good reason to do it its no surprise that it was scoffed at. White keyboard warriors needed to make a change, but couldn't do anything meaningful as it would require actually doing something.

At least this change makes sense.

I thought the purpose of the rename was to encourage these contributions that apparently weren't happening because of the branch name?

It certainly helped GNOME whom was one of the biggest proponents /s

The purpose was to make some people feel righteous, which is the purpose of so much human activity.
personally my default branch is called dominatrix, just to annoy the kind of person who argues about master
Do you call all your subsidiary branches “paypigs”?
ugh, half the repos at work use main and half use master. Such a pain.
dei idiots dont care about outcomes only signalling
Nah, I genuinely think "main" is a better name overall (it's shorter and clearer). What does "master" mean in a DVCS anyway?

I'm generally in favor of DEI, btw, so you can lose me with your bigotry.

mainster