The git world has moved from “master” as the default branch to “main”.
What would it take to change edX and Open edX repos from master to main?
GitHub instructions for renaming a branch: https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/renaming-a-branch
Unfortunately, GitHub won’t auto-forward “master” references to “main”, so everyone with a clone needs to manually rename the branch also.
GitHub provides instructions, but they are three command-line commands, which not everyone is comfortable using.
After renaming the branch and pushing it, update on github (see info here, for both):
Update default branch to be main
Update branch protection rules
edX pipelines?
readthedocs: project settings mention “master” as the branch to build.
openedx.yaml files have “openedx_release: {“ref”: “master”}” in them.
confluence process pages that mention master