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Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2012, 18:54 UTC
Message-ID
<20120312185440.GA21817@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20120312185008.GH12405@1wt.eu>
Willy Tarreau wrote:
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> From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users
> tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice,
> not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect
> most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So
> I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option.

The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to worry about others who have started to rely on the option.

Regards, Jonathan

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