Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:54:40 -0500 | From | Jonathan Nieder <> | Subject | Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support) |
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
> From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users > tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice, > not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect > most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So > I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option.
The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to worry about others who have started to rely on the option.
Regards, Jonathan
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