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I'm always surprised when someone goes through more effort to oppose something than to accept the PR and build a little trust. We did this in a codebase of ours

I'm always surprised when someone goes through more effort to oppose something than to accept the PR and build a little trust. We did this in a codebase of ours recently, it really wasn't a big deal to make the change and I don't understand why everyone throws up a big stink about it. If I'm going to spend my energy on something it seems like there's bigger things to tackle than pushing back against branch renames.

qlk1123 6y ago
A blacklist-to-blocklist PR may be OK for you, but a master-to-main PR is not OK at all for many others. Slavery is definite evil, but these PRs for branch renaming just went too far. As someone not a U.S. citizen, the impact of PC is ridiculously huge. I know slavery and how bad it is. It appeared in my culture, and it is still there in some form too. However, the ENGLISH word "master" means not much to me. It is just a multi-purpose symbol, like many other words. As the meaning being a main branch, why bothering the renaming? You claim that you are just spending your energy on something else, but in reality you are giving up the right to use your own language and to maintain the definition the meaning of a well-understood and frequently-used word.
goostavos 6y ago
You presuppose everyone views this group of people's "trust" as something worth having. It's just as easy to close the PR and move on.
johnisgood 6y ago
> I'm always surprised when someone goes through more effort to oppose something than to accept the PR and build a little trust. That is why I just ignore or reject such PRs. I do not believe that enabling it is a good idea. It is not my job to improve their context-awareness either.
exporectomy 6y ago
You may feel it doesn't matter now if you're already familiar with the culture but what happens in the future if they come after the word "git" which is a slur for low intelligence people or people with what is probably a mental illness? Mental-health-ism and the intelligence-ism may well appear since they're logically consistent with racism and sexism. Yes, you'll be able to just change that too but it'll be more total manhours for everyone to do that just as blacklist is probably more work than nigger.
strken 6y ago
Personally I'm pretty glad that most projects don't break backwards compatibility in config files across the globe for flavour-of-the-month American politics, but hey, you do you.

qlk1123 6y ago

A blacklist-to-blocklist PR may be OK for you, but a master-to-main PR is not OK at all for many others. Slavery is definite evil, but these PRs for branch renaming just went too far. As someone not a U.S. citizen, the impact of PC is ridiculously huge. I know slavery and how bad it is. It appeared in my culture, and it is still there in some form too. However, the ENGLISH word "master" means not much to me. It is just a multi-purpose symbol, like many other words. As the meaning being a main branch, why bothering the renaming? You claim that you are just spending your energy on something else, but in reality you are giving up the right to use your own language and to maintain the definition the meaning of a well-understood and frequently-used word.

goostavos 6y ago

You presuppose everyone views this group of people's "trust" as something worth having. It's just as easy to close the PR and move on.

johnisgood 6y ago

> I'm always surprised when someone goes through more effort to oppose something than to accept the PR and build a little trust. That is why I just ignore or reject such PRs. I do not believe that enabling it is a good idea. It is not my job to improve their context-awareness either.

exporectomy 6y ago

You may feel it doesn't matter now if you're already familiar with the culture but what happens in the future if they come after the word "git" which is a slur for low intelligence people or people with what is probably a mental illness? Mental-health-ism and the intelligence-ism may well appear since they're logically consistent with racism and sexism. Yes, you'll be able to just change that too but it'll be more total manhours for everyone to do that just as blacklist is probably more work than nigger.

strken 6y ago

Personally I'm pretty glad that most projects don't break backwards compatibility in config files across the globe for flavour-of-the-month American politics, but hey, you do you.