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No more master branch in maintaina horde

Jul 4, 2021

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Ralf

in First Page

I am changing the default branch in all maintaina-com/ horde repos to be the FRAMEWORK_6_0 branch. In a separate next step, the master branch on these repos will be removed.

This is not due to any semantic discussion of technical terms like “master”. I am simply acknowledging reality. At the moment I cannot hope to get all those changes merged into horde’s proper master branches. I do incorporate their advances into maintaina but it is not going to the tight feedback loop I would wish to have.

I have no use for a branch pretending to be something different than or beyond the FRAMEWORK_6_0 venture. I had README’s in all those master branches warning against using them. It is way better to simply get rid of them now.