[VOTE] Switch 'master' to 'main' branch for repositories

[Daniel Golle]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 08:05:21AM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> More and more projects are switching their repositories to use the 'main'
> branch instead of the 'master' branch. This also includes many Linux
> upstream trees as well. Some trees are even removing their 'master' branches
> already.
> 
> I think this is becoming more and more mainstream and expected of projects,
> so we should do the same.
> 
> I would like to propose the following:
> 
> 1. Change the git server side to automatically update the 'master' branch,
> whenever an update is pushed to 'main'.
> It's important to have a long transition period in order to avoid breaking
> downstream users' workflows.
> 
> 2. Change the git server side to refuse a push to 'master' if 'main' exists.
> This avoid accidental branch divergence
> 
> 3. Developers simply change their git configs to always push to 'main'
> 
> Once this change is well established, we can look into removing 'master',
> but we should definitely take our time with that.

Thank you very much for taking care of that!

+1