Great to see that we're following industry best practice!

Another advantage to using "main" is that it more clearly documents that the main branch is one of many potential branches, whereas "master" could be seen as implying a specific branching strategy in which fixes are backported from from master into release branches.

A tip to fellow developers, you'll want to configure git locally like this for compatibility:

Hi all,

I've changed the default branch for repos/releng/release repo on gitlab[0] from 'master' to 'main'. Please remember to change branches for your local repositories. I'll be deleting the 'master' branch next week.

[0]: <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/release>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 2:47 PM Jeena Huneidi <jhuneidi@wikimedia.org> wrote:

One week from today, or sometime soon after, the repos/releng/release default branch will be renamed from “master” to “main” [0][1].

We will send notification when we complete the renaming.

If you use this repository, please make sure to change branches after the renaming has been done [2].

Release Engineering will make any necessary changes to support this rename, but if you have concerns about something that might be affected by this change or overlooked, please do notify us.

Phab task for reference: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329770

Thank you for your vigilance!

[0]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281593>
[1]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254646>
[2]: Instructions: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Workflows#Rename_%22master%22_to_%22main%22>

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Jeena Huneidi
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation

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Jeena Huneidi
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation

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