Replace master with main

[mikebentley15]

Bug Report

Description

We would like to replace the master branch to main. This allows us to abandon "master" vocabulary which reminds some of a master-slave relationship.

If there are any changes to make in the files of the repository, it will need to be done for all branches.

[IanBriggs]

If we are changing naming, my two cents is that since we have “branches” the biggest one should be the trunk. Thoughts?

[mikebentley15]

Or "stable"

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On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 23:10 Ian Briggs ***@***.***> wrote: If we are changing naming, my two cents is that since we have “branches” the biggest one should be the trunk. Thoughts? — You are receiving this because you were assigned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#329 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACBVGNEOVYCB4T6CIRX77P3R3FASRANCNFSM4OXP6SJA> .

[mikebentley15]

I'm rethinking using main because it is actually not our main development branch. That title goes to the devel branch.

You suggested trunk to go back to SVN days and the idea that all branches come out of this one. That's not accurate in our case either, since we branch from devel.

@IanBriggs What did you think of my suggestion to using stable instead of main or master? Our old master branch is intended to have only the stable releases of the software. I think stable or latest-release would better describe what it represents.

Thoughts?