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

[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.

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