From: Boyd Lynn Gerber Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:11:05 GMT Subject: Re: Future suggestion's to assist with changes to git. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vej48d73e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King 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. >> - 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. -- Boyd Gerber ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047