The Terminology Purge: A Scrum Master's Anxiety

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This meme uses the two-panel 'Awkward Look Monkey Puppet' format. The first line of text states the community's desire: 'Community: let's change master branch to main to avoid slavery references'. Below this, it says 'Scrum Master:'. The two images show the monkey puppet looking straight ahead, then nervously darting its eyes to the side. The humor stems from the tech industry's recent move to replace potentially problematic terms. While the 'master' branch in Git was a primary target, the meme points out the awkward irony that the 'Scrum Master' role in Agile methodologies could be next, causing the character to have a moment of anxious self-realization. It's a sharp commentary on corporate social initiatives and the linguistic domino effects they can create

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My title is safe. We're an agile team; we'll just rename the role to 'Primary Process Shepherd' in the next sprint retrospective

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

My title is safe. We're an agile team; we'll just rename the role to 'Primary Process Shepherd' in the next sprint retrospective
Anonymous

“Scrum Master reviewing the ‘master → main’ PR: ‘Fantastic - Git drops the slavery reference and I inherit 37 Jenkins jobs hard-coded to origin/master. Turns out I’m the legacy dependency now.’”
Anonymous

Waiting for the day we rename Scrum Master to Scrum Facilitator and watch every certification body scramble to update their $3000 course materials while consultants quietly bill another transformation
Anonymous

The real technical debt here isn't in the codebase - it's in the org chart. We'll refactor 'master' branches across millions of repos, update CI/CD pipelines, rewrite documentation, and break countless scripts... but renaming 'Scrum Master' would require an actual conversation with HR. Priorities: we'll merge this PR, but that other one's staying in draft forever
Anonymous

Git renamed master→main; the Scrum Master asked if they should rebrand too - we said sure, you’re basically a symbolic ref that points to meetings
Anonymous

Renaming branches: one git command. Renaming Scrum Master? That's a multi-sprint epic refactor
Anonymous

When the org proposes a global sed -i 's/master/main/g', the Scrum Master realizes they’re two keystrokes from becoming “Scrum Main” while every CI job, branch protection rule, and release script learns about HEAD the hard way
@RiedleroD 4y

"community" I've not seen a single person that thinks this was a good idea
1. @LionElJonson 4y
  
  Maybe because you are not American (and so am I)
  
  @dsmagikswsa 4y
  
  Too political correct
2. @quit_ka 4y
  
  I think this is a good idea
  
  @foverzar 4y
  
  So what exactly was practically achieved?
  
  @quit_ka 4y
  
  Let me think, maybe lack of slavery references was achieved? 🙂 You can search for "respectful language", "inclusive language", "respectful code" to learn why this is an issue.
  
  @foverzar 4y
  
  Was it though? Was it even a slevery reference? The word "master" (wordroot, more precisely) has an impressive variety of meanings dependant on the context. I get how terminology "master-slave" could be problematic -- it imples specific meaning in it's context. But in the context of git it has entirely different meaning. There are no "slave" branches and the overal mental model does not imply any possible relation to slavery. It seems to me that seing a slavery reference here is more of a misunderstanding of what git does, mutliplied by a wierd desire to see niche meanings in general words.
  
  @Dark_Embrace 4y
  
  As a slav I'm offended by your "slevery"
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  ppl with a masters degree: *commits suicide to cleanse the world of slavery*
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  on a more serious note, I'd get it if master/slave connections would've been renamed, but that terminology is still widely used. In USB connections, for example.
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  On the contrary, people *without* masters degree may do quite the opposite - killing others - just like a young Jedi named Skywalked once did after he was denied the Master rank.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  if they don't take me as a master, I'll have to convert to the dark side - QA
  
  Kademlia 4y
  
  I'm glad, we're moving away from mentioning slave then *respectfully* preserve slave labour
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  lmao
  
  @Magilarp 4y
  
  What a surprise. Performative progressivism (aka liberal progressivism) doesn't work
  
  @InputUsernameHere 4y
  
  Maybe you can try to pull your head out of your ass to learn why you're full of shit. The word master isn't a reference to slavery in on itself. They made it a reference to slavery because there wasn't enough shit to cry about.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  maybe you could try being less aggressive, then ppl would maybe listen to you
  
  @InputUsernameHere 4y
  
  Sorry I was replying to passive aggression with active aggression
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  I like to think the voice of reason should be better than that
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  other than that, I agree
  
  @p4vook 4y
  
  Please pass the following CAPTCHA: Name two increasing sequences of different kind, converging to e.
3. @MagnusEdvardsson 4y
  
  TBH, it's cringy af
4. Kademlia 4y
  
  Community Managers more likely
@meowo456 4y

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@Pepperoni_Pizza 4y

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@sylfn 4y

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@YYAMETEKKUDASAI 4y

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@ImTooSerious 4y

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@RiedleroD 4y

loh
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  nig?geloh
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  ye
@cringy_frog 4y

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@Dark_Embrace 4y

I don't think references to slavery are a problem. It is slavery itself that is a problem.
@qtsmolcat 4y

s/community/GitHub
@azizhakberdiev 4y

Master card:
1. @sylfn 4y
  
  will be renamed soon
2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
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Anon 4y

>Entire world has to adapt a thing based on US's culture and history God i fucking hate those fat amerimutts so much it's unreal
1. @freeapp2014 4y
  
  Is there even any real person who had a problem with those names
  
  Anon 4y
  
  No but fucking Americans with their fuckup history has to make everything harder for rest of us
  
  @freeapp2014 4y
  
  Looks like games and movies where people who don’t use/watch them scream about their garbage requirements not met
  
  @freeapp2014 4y
  
  Part of the reason that industry lost a lot in customer value
2. @qtsmolcat 4y
  
  That's actually an England things

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