Rename master to main?

[bjlittle]

Given the migration of the community and git tooling away from master to main, are there any opinions on whether iris should adopt this rebrand?

See here for further details.

What do you think @SciTools/iris-devs ? 🤔

P.S. Also see this similar discussion on nc-time-axis.

[jamesp]

Small change, easy to make. 👍

[rcomer]

This might be already in hand, but I noticed the latest docs are stuck on commit 9268ca9, which I think was the last one on master.

[rcomer]

Looks like that's now sorted!

[rcomer]

Within my local clone, it seems I can still "see" and even rebase against upstream/master. Is there a way I can get rid of that?

[rcomer]

I have answered my own question:

git fetch -p upstream

p is for prune

[pp-mo]

We have done this : replaced "master" with "main" as default branch

I will now use this as a trial of an idea :
Since you cannot 'close' a discussion, only delete it,
how would we retain the discussion while 'closing' it ?

So, I suggest
To archive a discussion, convert to Issue + Close

[pp-mo]

Oh, it doesn't work.
"Convert to Issue" only copies the head -- it doesn't take the comments with it, or duplicate them

[pp-mo]

Since you cannot 'close' a discussion, only delete it,
how would we retain the discussion while 'closing' it ?

Another idea:
re-categorise as "Archived"