Whether or not any patch would be accepted, the damage is already done.
From now on, people will judge you if you dare to use the name "master" anywhere
and this is incredibly sad. These people are literally bullying us into
submission in the name of political correctness where no harm was actually
done.
This sickens me.
Not just that, any twitter use can complain and get entire communities
to throw out all rules on changes to appear to be on the "right" side.
If anyone submitted a patch to change any functioning name without good
reason, especially one assumed to never change and would likely break a
significant number of external processes it would be denied without
second thought. Here the entire thread didn't ask should we change it
but instead started on the premise, even though this is documented
throughout the world and millions or even billions of scripts and
programs assume it to be constant, it must change without discussion.
Not just that the entire process has become a laughing stock that the
tech community seriously believes anyone has a problem with 'master' but
even worse that it will somehow fix something in the world. You can find
no shortages of post on forums and websites of people wondering what
exactly is trying to be accomplished.While not done here presumably due
to being more difficult to access, every other venue of commenting has
been either ignored (e.g. twitter) or closed to discussion under the
premise its becoming to aggressive to argue against. This thread is not
much better quickly coming to a decision that its not IF it should
change but WHAT it should change to.
What reason could possibly be good enough to break backward
compatibility with itself, break assumed standards of interaction with
the software, and all without major review process? I have seen critical
security patches with more insight than how quickly this word change is
being pushed through both here and other locations.
