From: Jay Soffian Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:33:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add --confirm option 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 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.