From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add core.mode configuration
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:11:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEBDL5UaowCZggHijoqPF2UP5B6Y6Bkr9eP+A-Z3-x71W1Oi6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5We2wshgMZcTXoDziXskKvb9s2=2DEZtXRBgbTiitCOZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:54 AM, John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
[snip]
> "probably a minority" -- I guess that's the part I disagree with. I'm
> not sure what a minority means here, but I don't think it'll be a
> handful of people. How big does that number get before we get
> concerned about backlash from users if we decide to change course?
> Or, is that simply not an issue? Why or why not? I have to be
> honest, if the option was available, I'd have my developers turn it
> on. I'm sure a great deal of others would do so too.
>
> Is there some other way we can solve this? Having an experimental
> branch with all the 2.0 features merged and those concerned can just
> build that version? I see the downside of that too: it's not as easy
> for people to try, and there is nothing preventing folks from posting
> binaries with the new behaviors enabled. It leads me to feeling that
> we're stuck in some regard. But maybe I'm being overly pessimistic
> here, and it's really all a non-issue. As I said earlier, it'd be
> nice if others chimed in here.
Thinking about this a little more, we do have a proving ground.
That's what the whole pu/next/master construct is for. So maybe this
is a non-issue. By the time it lands on master, we should have
decided whether the feature is worth keeping or not.
-John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-16 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-12 7:04 [PATCH v3] Add core.mode configuration Felipe Contreras
2013-10-14 20:59 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-14 21:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-15 12:35 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-15 12:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-15 13:33 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-15 13:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-15 14:51 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-15 16:59 ` John Szakmeister
2013-10-16 3:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-16 7:09 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-16 19:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-16 10:54 ` John Szakmeister
2013-10-16 15:11 ` John Szakmeister [this message]
2013-10-16 19:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-16 19:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-16 22:02 ` Philip Oakley
2013-10-16 23:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-17 19:48 ` Philip Oakley
2013-10-17 21:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-15 18:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-15 22:01 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-16 4:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-16 6:34 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-16 19:28 ` Felipe Contreras
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