Maybe it's worth putting something in an faq - that we support the intent of the master to main naming convention

That's pretty counter-productive. It would be just empty virtue-signalling response to an empty virtue-signalling gesture (that of MS/Github pushing master->main transition).

The change would bring absolutely nothing to no-one (except a lot of needless work/friction; and an inroad for future woke incursions). Whomever is having problem with slavery can fight modern-day slavery in ie. Africa / China / etc or sex trafficking in their own country.

I'm a bit sorry if I misinterpret what you say because of my poor understanding of english.
But I would answer that whomever having a problem with fighting slavery in general should leave the community.
Anyone also using and supporting extreme right vocabulary (e.g. "woke") should leave the community.
If that's trolling, all the same.

If I misinterpreted (non-native english speaker), I am sorry, and probably you will agree with me and there is no need for dicussion.
 
Steven.

I'd prefer either nothing in the FAQ, or finite statement to the tune of "no wokeness, we are about merit and not about empty gestures".

Of course I expect cowardice & virtue-signalling to win in the end, but at least I tried.

M.R.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
Subject: [Pharo-dev] Re: Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming

Maybe it's worth putting something in an faq - that we support the intent of the master to main naming convention, but that as we are a small community trying to improve many aspects of 50 years of development, this one had to unfortunately take a back seat for the moment while we simplify other things to make this an easier change?

Tim

On 19 Jul 2021, at 12:26, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

Sven

From that perspective this master to main change will cost us a lot of problem.
I decided to continue to configure all my repositories to use master
and I will do it for any repository that is related to pharo and that people may use. Just to remove such kind of friction.
I would encourage people to do the same like that we do not have to think.

S

On 12 Jul 2021, at 14:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Hi,

For new GitHub projects the default branch is now main instead of master.

There is however code in Metacello / Iceberg / ... that tries a number of options if no branch is specified, but it is not yet aware of this change.

Specifically:

This does not work

./pharo reddit.image metacello install github://svenvc/Reddit
BaselineOfReddit

instead you have to say

./pharo reddit.image metacello install github://svenvc/Reddit:main/
BaselineOfReddit

It took me half an hour to figure this out ;-)

Sven