From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:30:41 GMT Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Message-ID: <20080828203040.GQ18340@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <7v63pkew9l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:10:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think it is fair to say that I have vetoed and am still vetoing many "UI > clean-ups" that propose to change things in a way that "should have been > this way for consistency's sake from day one, if there were no existing > user base". During discussions to shoot down such proposals, I take > opinions from early adopters (that's you, kernel, wine and x.org people) > very seriously, perhaps to the point that outsiders would feel I am giving > them disproportionately large vetoing power. Sadly, those "opinions from > eraly adopters" are less and less "real" but more "I'd imagine the early > adopters would say..." these days. The process would work better if early > adopters do their part to help me by speaking up when it matters from time > to time. I think it's fairly clear by now that we aren't shy about sharing our opinions ... if we're asked for them. So do we need a git-oldtimers mailing list where you can post proposals so we can NACK them? -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."