switch default branch name to main in docs/ci #8210
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This PR updates the CI and docs to refer to a renamed "main" branch.
Unlike spacetelescope/stdatamodels#247 and spacetelescope/stpipe#136 it is likely that downstream packages are referring to the current default branch. For some period of time (I cannot find a statement that define for how long), github will redirect these requests to the renamed branch.
Known downstream uses will be listed here:
For developers, they will need to update their local clones and forks to match the new default branch.
Once the issue of updating packages that use the current jwst default branch is addressed, we should be able to:
It's possible codecov may need to be updated to use "main" (if it's not using the default branch).
Checklist for maintainers
CHANGES.rst
within the relevant release sectionHow to run regression tests on a PR