Re: [ANNOUNCE] Guilt v0.31

From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Date: Sep 9, 2008, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID: <48C6A469.30702@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzcp71el.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 09.09.2008 18:02:

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> Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
>> I keep hearing this argument, and I'm even more surprised to hear it
>> right after a major release. If not now then when's a good time for
>> cleaning up confusing inconsistencies?
> 
> Actually, after a major release is the worst time to push for such an
> agenda.

For many projects, things become unstable after a major release. This is the time to experiment. Right before a major release, everything needs to settle down, with a focus on bugfixes and stability.

That said, I know the "logic" of the make targets now, so I really don't care any more what they are named. I just meant to keep others from being confused. So I guess I'll go with the existing naming and fit quick-install-html right in. Will go into a new thread tomorrow or so.

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> Especially when that release burned the maintainer with numerous complains
> against a major change in it, that has been advertised for a long time,
> which was pushed by other people for no good reason other than "such a
> clean-up would make things much tidier".
> 
> Grrr ;-).

Junio, I think you handled that in the best possible way, and I felt sympathetic with you when that thread with a RFC went OT back to discussing things over again.

Cheers, Michael