From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Szakmeister Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add core.mode configuration Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:11:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1381561485-20252-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <20131014205908.GA17089@shrek.podlesie.net> <525c63b6711fa_197a905e845b@nysa.notmuch> <20131015123505.GA3097@shrek.podlesie.net> <525d35e766ad4_55661275e7426@nysa.notmuch> <20131015133327.GA22723@shrek.podlesie.net> <525d4354a5436_5844e73e843d@nysa.notmuch> <20131015145139.GA3977@shrek.podlesie.net> <525e0e1b28c87_81a151de743f@nysa.notmuch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Krzysztof Mazur , git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 16 17:12:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VWSll-0004XM-RN for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:12:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760718Ab3JPPLr (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:11:47 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]:34128 "EHLO mail-wi0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760716Ab3JPPLp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:11:45 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id l12so942537wiv.8 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:11:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=eH0CRdfaJbqZ5UutIzAZLnpKpDtH8NjCJCvnAk0fxvw=; b=f0MnKKzUj8R3QmVpH4dG2EEEEVV6jxq5GmD2XCOuhIesir4R+MW75OcX8aVHzxUg66 BRiKJJ7E1zPbF4sINhTjbQDNfijespn0OO4cwd/vOQ2XBFVjU+EPGaMflgK18F6C4p1T Dzd0YEa9gL7aIERKsZiyaYOE+Bzp5yimbN2IWFEdKakaNc/9Tyyxz+KFjOzOXQIP4AGd L2WN4ah6FB6N5/ISGj4LZeX5lbRLm6adXrZ+FFRGsv+Bz7UgjrUaC3fYL5ncyQ6bKbFE wwfX6iORLpD1o94xnXoigdEnixVzqPvSSpeYriyR4bjeZGqGVTsollv+kp+4N6fQW/em 8OWA== X-Received: by 10.194.2.108 with SMTP id 12mr1818117wjt.64.1381936304421; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.99.169 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:11:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: BXHZFZE2nuuMVi9g1QVYlru8xVg Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:54 AM, John Szakmeister 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