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draeger-lab / SBSCL

The Systems Biology Simulation Core Library (SBSCL) provides an efficient and exhaustive Java implementation of methods to interpret the content of models encoded in the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) and its numerical solution.
https://draeger-lab.github.io/SBSCL/
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Terminology, Power and Oppressive Language in Computer Science #52

Closed draeger closed 4 years ago

draeger commented 4 years ago

To avoid implying any oppressive language, we should rename the master branch to main by following these recommendations: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx

draeger commented 4 years ago

It seems renaming the master branch will cause problems with GitHub pages: https://seankilleen.com/2020/06/how-to-rename-your-default-branch-away-from-master-while-using-github-pages/

hemilpanchiwala commented 4 years ago

@draeger, GitHub officially says to wait for its new updates which will seamlessly provide support for changing master branch to main branch.

Guidelines by GitHub on renaming branch name: https://github.com/github/renaming