Rename 'master' branch to something else?
See original GitHub issueSee this register article for useful background. I think for the large projects like this one (and msprime) it makes sense to change the default branch name.
I think it makes sense to also change to something more descriptive. How about development
? This describes our workflow more accurately, and would have the advantage of emphasising to people that the Git version is the development version, and they should use the tagged releases unless they explicitly want the dev version.
Any thoughts on different names? Any objections to doing this in the first place?
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All done, closing.
The poll clearly chose
main
. I propose we make the switch on the 28th, to give a little warning.