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Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add --confirm option

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2009, 12:33 UTC
Message-ID
<76718490903020433l21b98a77s574847e7484fda05@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20090302172401.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
> By the way, I don't think the lesson you should take home is the need for an escape hatch. Read the message by Junio on August 24th, 2008. Being nice and not too loud during the deprecation period kept users complacent about upcoming changes and upset them when the change finally came. Being un-nice and too loud during the deprecation period would have upset them early instead. You cannot avoid upsetting users either way whenever you change the behavior. That's the lesson you should learn.
Thank you for correcting me, and I apologize for the misinformation.

It is very difficult to balance between the users who are upset enough by the change to be vocal about it, and the users who benefit from the change but that this list never hears from, but I appreciate that Junio is trying to accommodate both.

j.
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Message 11 of 22 in “send-email: add --confirm option”
  1. send-email: add --confirm optionJay Soffian, Mar 1, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 1, 2009
  3. Jay SoffianMar 1, 2009
  4. send-email: add --confirm optionJay Soffian, Mar 1, 2009
  5. Paul GortmakerMar 1, 2009
  6. Jay SoffianMar 1, 2009
  7. Nanako ShiraishiMar 2, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2009
  9. Nanako ShiraishiMar 2, 2009
  10. Felipe ContrerasMar 2, 2009
  11. Jay SoffianMar 2, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2009
  13. Jay SoffianMar 2, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2009
  15. send-email: add --confirm option and configuration settingJay Soffian, Mar 3, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2009
  17. Nanako ShiraishiMar 3, 2009
  18. Bert WesargMar 3, 2009
  19. Jay SoffianMar 3, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2009
  21. Bert WesargMar 3, 2009
  22. Jay SoffianMar 3, 2009

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