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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elpa.git and `new-master`
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:26:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7dph6dai.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bletzxjv.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:29:28 +0100")

> The problem is that words not only have meanings but also connotations. And
> whether you like it or not, the word 'master' evokes the word 'slave' and
> everything associated with it.

While I agree that in the context of CS protocols, "master" evokes
"slave", in my day-to-day life "master" evokes instead the notion of
someone skilled in an art with no connotation of any kind of
slave counterpart (any counterpart would be called student instead).


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-16 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-16  6:47 elpa.git and `new-master` Boruch Baum
2020-12-16  7:38 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16  8:24   ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-16  9:31     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16  9:59       ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-16  8:49   ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-16  9:34     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16  9:01   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-16 12:29   ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-16 13:48     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16 14:04       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-16 14:40         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16 14:26     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-12-16 20:08     ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-17  3:58     ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-17  5:54     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-17  8:25       ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 16:22       ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-18  5:48         ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-16 17:03   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-16  9:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-16 10:19   ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-16 14:15     ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-16 13:48   ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-16 13:53     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-16 14:43       ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-16 15:24         ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-16 15:37         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16 17:54         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-16 16:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-16 16:16   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-16 18:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 18:46       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-16 19:03         ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-16 19:06           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 19:21             ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-16 19:55               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 19:22             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-16 19:56               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 20:06                 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-16 20:12                 ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-16 20:19                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-16 21:16                     ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-16 21:38                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 20:38                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 20:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 20:53           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-16 21:09           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-16 21:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-17  0:11           ` Caio Henrique
2020-12-17  3:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-17  8:15             ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17  8:39               ` Tim Cross
2020-12-17 15:14             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 20:41       ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-16 21:24         ` Boruch Baum
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-15  4:46 Stefan Monnier
2020-12-15 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-15 16:53   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-15 18:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-15 19:02       ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-15 19:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-15 21:09       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-15 21:33       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16 15:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-15 18:57 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-15 21:35   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-16  5:43   ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-16  8:33   ` Tim Cross
2020-12-17  5:55     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-16  9:00   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-15 19:03 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-15 21:43 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2020-12-15 22:34   ` Stefan Monnier

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