Re: Future suggestion's to assist with changes to git.

From: Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2008, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0808281801510.18129@suse104.zenez.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vej48d73e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>     For people building from source, we have the Release Notes, but
>>     beyond that, I don't know where to put it (and I don't meant the web
>>     site is a bad place -- the more places the better, but there is no
>>     catch-all place).
>
> That would help compared to doing nothing, but many people who complained
> in the first thread (this is the third one, by the way) was k.org users
> who used a machine somebody else installs the software for them.  Messages
> during installation would not help those people.

Sorry, about that but I was starting to loose things with all the gigantic ... thread. I wanted to be able to see some things happen, from the long thread and felt that having the CC list as long as it was was not assisting in getting a resolution.

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>>   - the command complaining that my use of it is deprecated. In
>>     retrospect, we probably should have done this.
>
> This is arguable.  People would have get annoying messages thrown into
> their mailbox from their cron jobs, even before the switchover happened,
> which effectively means that we move the whining period from now back to
> the beginning of the deprecation period -- it won't reduce the amount of
> actual whining.
>

I prefered the way it was done. I would have hated the messages in my cron jobs. Some of my cronjobs have everything going to /dev/null When I am unable to convice the project to eliminate things like the above, I am forced to /dev/null them to be able to use them in a way that is not to annoying for me. I really liked the way things were done with the exception of maybe a bit better communication. But there will always be whiners. Just want an other way to emphazise that things are going to change. Maybe it will stop a few.

Thanks again for the good work done by all in the community.

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