Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:27:02PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

From the time balance sheet, it does not look good at all: a few minutes 

for Junio to change and commit, up to a few hours (because they missed it 
in the release notes) for probably more than hundred repository 
maintainers that are not subscribed to the Git mailing list.

If you just grab sources and never read release notes, there is nothing
that can help you. If Git 1.6.0 is not the right moment to do these
changes then Git 1.6.1 is neither, regardless whether Debian will
release Lenny by that time or not. People do not upgrade their distro in
the day of release. Some upgraded to Etch not so long ago. So, should we
wait for another year till 1.7.0?

And I absolutely agree with Pasky that this does _nothing_ in the vague 
direction of wielding a reputation of being easy to use.

I don't think Git 1.4 is easy to use. If you want Git that is easy to
use install Git 1.5.x. And, it is *much* easier to install Git from
backports then to deal with usability issues of Git 1.4 and the lack
of community support.  So, I don't see how this change may hurt.

Sure, we can make it easy on ourselves.  And it is just as easy to make it 
hard on others.  If you're okay with that, I am not.

It has *nothing* to do with making easy on ourselves and hard on others.
The question here is what is the appropriate time to change these default
settings, and I believe that *major* releases are the appropriate time
while minor ones are not.


Dmitry