From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (pb-smtp1.pobox.com [64.147.108.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFD8B6FB8 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.70 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721936070; cv=none; b=uwaYq87Ol6RpJ1FnsgCWXZlWmMnMbm1eTTAxZnglBlcgEi0P+E6bx+DME2c8oT4FrPdlMUNrOK4c16Z+brVeS1W+x4+fKoH8Dc23io51uo7HIPuRQJC+S81kyUr1IAhbIZdCJZK3lYTBxui1SJo+9qP4QoC2+VdK6g7k/vhcQFM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721936070; c=relaxed/simple; bh=FhzqvPDPZ6GqIhPkLDPgcQvHEkzfCFgg7qlwVHXthL0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=mE1bnfWCOrK+vquwC2kDTVzXbH2YFspwMpqYq5rjMhvHlBHVCe/KvJ1/VmCwIMnuLSsTwbG1y/kthJGN6NP8yVS3oJP8y5qVoDHPy7U2xmBsmRQB1YdIhdzrY7R1ofdAjqA8Q0PWBiNOAROBjsGycdLAWWRlQ5JMn1qHcWBEySo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=r37oyNUt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.70 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="r37oyNUt" Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244B426A8E; Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:34:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=FhzqvPDPZ6GqIhPkLDPgcQvHEkzfCFgg7qlwVH XthL0=; b=r37oyNUtZx2L1GpNzCmUcpos9OyzwN0hF8xhn8/zRJeXIAYePfgPOu xDrSv9PWSzigw9Z9TOHNdFkWyt4RbNwwORvKpHPBYmDrCiQZfCDS2XsNah55uaih z5R39QhPMsnZiT6mqDxWffy5S4w2JYJ0g0y40St7Lzt5PbT71p6oI= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA6426A8D; Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:34:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.139.61]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 773D926A8C; Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:34:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Emily Shaffer Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Randall S. Becker" , Taylor Blau , Johannes Schindelin , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: add platform support policy In-Reply-To: (Emily Shaffer's message of "Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:52:50 -0700") References: <20240718173843.2411415-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:34:20 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E439D5BE-4ABC-11EF-837A-34EEED2EC81B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Emily Shaffer writes: > It's not quite my favorite, still, because I guess that LTS distros > could get to a point we don't want to support (do we really want to > provide cutting-edge git features to a 25-year-old LTS distro, for > example?). Plus, "just look at everyone else's homework and use that" > feels a little weird. But essentially that is what we end up doing anyway, no? If a platform is used heavily by some of us, they get more attention because we would be the first to notice breakage on it. Like it or not, the population distribution of development community members on different platforms would not align with the population distribution of general public, but without access to and familiarlity with the platform, and without motivation and time we can spend on it, none of us would feel compelled to look into an issue that only surfaces on an unfamiliar platform. So it is inevitable that "you'd have better chance of being helped by us if you make it as similar to platforms that we are familiar with as you can" holds true. > Will keep thinking on this, I'd welcome other suggestions for phrasing. Likewise here.