Robert Elz wrote in <22243.1615954740@jinx.noi.kre.to>: | Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:41:05 -0700 | From: Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> | Message-ID: <4ed87012-2167-44a0-583c-c1122625ea0a@cs.ucla.edu> | |I have no problem with the change (don't use git anyway), but | || Because the word "master" has negative connotations in English, | |No, it doesn't. The issue is more that no-one wants to work on |any of the real issues, which are hard, but changing the words people |use is (or can be) relatively easy, so it is attractive to do that, |rather than anything hard, and one can claim to have made progress, |when absolutely nothing that matters has changed. Oh Mr. Robert Elz, i wholeheartly agree. Thankful the master thesis still remains, and will not become the mean main thesis. You know .. about the really important things.. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)