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

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:59:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

I think this can be generalized to "messages from the maintainer of your
systems". In the case of single-user installs, a message from the
package maintainer is appropriate. For a multi-user system, I would
expect a message from the admin to all of the users of the software.

> 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.

Personally, I would rather have my task succeed with a little extra spew
to stderr than to fail completely. And that would get the people who
were against the change involved in the discussion at a much earlier
point.

-Peff