In some organizations, an integration branch is for pulling together independent dev branch efforts to prepare a potential release. master branch is generally the ‘gold master’ state, or state of the current live release. If I had to change it, I’d call it main, live, release, or primary. But we don’t use it for integration, things only get moved there after official release with a tag bearing the release ID.
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Yah I work in devops (on the dev side) and my boss is absolutely convinced we should be merging to master every day, no exceptions, with automatic testing hopefully detecting any issues. I have different views on the matter but then I come from a much more large scale environment where individual merges were peer reviewed and manually validated.
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After slogging through all of this again, it seems that in this case, “master bedroom” is an anachronism. The person or persons using that bedroom are not masters in any sense, nor need they be. The room does not rule over the other rooms. It isn’t even a masterpiece.
At least in English, I think the term “master” as a term for ruler or someone in charge can be considered a word from the Second Millennium and no longer useful in the Third. Only use it from now on to mean achieving a certain proficiency, like a brewmaster or a master’s degree.
Time to look forward, not back.
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Almost totally off topic, but as another person like that, I resisted for years when people called me a master of my field of effort. Then maybe it was insecurity, yet I’ve found a new reason. I don’t take apprentices, I don’t host journeystudents (trying out new verbiage there…), and I don’t engage in the open effort to improve the overall quality of my field that surely is an important aspect of being a “master of craft”. I always thought the “master bedroom” was referring to the bedroom of the person who supported the residents of the entire compound, which to my mind would have included long term guests of the house or whatever.
Oh, and I received mail for almost just over a decade addressed to Master Firstname Lastname…in 1970s and early 1980s NYC.
All that typed, you know what? If the common use sucks, well, let’s change it. Get over it, change is the true inevitable and unlike doing taxes, it doesn’t need to suck. We can build a better society. Let’s do it together.
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Yeah, I tried for a minute to develop a system like this with a number of people in my field, but candidates weren’t terribly interested in learning the craft, they more interested in securing a “cool” job. At this point whenever anyone says they are “passionate” about spirits, they go to the bottom of the stack. I need people listening and learning, not waiting for their moment to take the wheel.
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Lots of things need changing if all possible senses of “master” are to become ungoodspeak. My OED shows over thirty usages, many of which predate black slavery in the Americas by several centuries.
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In the trades, there are levels of demonstated ability. You start as an apprentice, work up to journeyman, then become a master. The titles started in feudal times, I think, but are still being used today by tradespeople who probably don’t get the lecture they used to give in the 70s and 80s about the history of the system. They did change tradesman to tradespeople, but I do know some women (who entered the trades in the 80s) who don’t mind the term tradesman because “if I’m a tradesman that means I’m as good as the men.”
Every sound person and computer technician I know uses “male” and “female” for the ends of cables. I hadn’t heard of “innie” and “outie” til today!
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As @anon61221983 has noted upthread, language is a changeable thing. Dictionaries have many entries that have “obs.” in front of a definition; it means obsolete, a way a word is no longer used.
I’d hate to see a useful word go away, just because one of its usages is despicable.
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Earn a doctorate?
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On my home network, our bedroom is simply Chamber, with the guest room the Guest Quarters.
Now though I’m seriously considering changing the former to Captains’ Quarters. 
The speakers and lights on the patio should become Ten Forward.
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Those 30 meanings can be reduced to roughly two: those about dominance and those about skill. And just as dominance hierarchies cease to be the dominant way to order society, the concept of master may cease to play such a role in people’s mental models, and loose their metaphorical power.
I suggest we just let of of that word, and find better ones. And while you’re at it, let go of “ungoodspeak”, too.
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Is that a “male” or “a female”?
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A cloaca
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It’s a socket, you can fuck it no matter what the gender.
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And if you don’t clean the dining room, is it then the Officer’s Mess?
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Yeah, there’s also “hermaphrodites” and “gender changers”, sometimes referred to as “homosexual”. It’s a bad metaphor, though: the idea that a D25 RS232 has 25 is dicks pretty ridiculous.
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Did that.
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Perhaps “shitty movie”?
