From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (pb-smtp2.pobox.com [64.147.108.71]) (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 389AD17C7B2 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:37:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1720726621; cv=none; b=ffyRIvSe6Gr6rmc2E1r3FkEHjpfRrLIQruZsA5IW7boWNu6t0Fa7TW2EMXd5wfdgpR3RtwJX4jR5jJObpo54jUBxJ0Qkh6hutxWWk0a46TVcgT+wvOu+iD3/LdaRNYf7HNUP8y6qwohFB0uwFn4Sx/Qh+VqdX8EbyRNwzC5DEis= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1720726621; c=relaxed/simple; bh=V+FJk+UX5zJUG6fRwrlxiJ7TufCaEJ0a5Jbxwi7++WM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TvVenFkARNIIFrdUfv4tKGiNgSklJZijvqiJSLHagJdAV4UTMx/F+esYv4sitmysN0szXnxN/11QY7fkmvZkOB7kFNz3Zw0/WulevHIPMFWczA0JTcmKT5z6evOLzVW5WMcZJ80etS8bdmzgZxQzU9RovnlXfq34C8eR95Wmf+M= 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=jC/8uSNW; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 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="jC/8uSNW" Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1554C3F377; Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:36:59 -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=V+FJk+UX5zJUG6fRwrlxiJ7TufCaEJ0a5Jbxwi 7++WM=; b=jC/8uSNWi85Jv27bl/bo6p7ttLlodhqvj5/tW/tmKIHyBAEqhzAOH1 +WHdPhKPPwvLj5sZcCVSbedrgpbDNBDY8n/7KrEWWNujmdsdba/6eB08Dzz/WwzV nhRq0pbj/vcQTRcW3g09UPDFFa9LfcTKo46NWrKyv0VxreixjO1IM= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8E43F376; Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:36:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.219.236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 69AA33F375; Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:36:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Emily Shaffer Cc: Kyle Lippincott , git@vger.kernel.org, "Randall S. Becker" , Taylor Blau Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add platform support policy In-Reply-To: (Emily Shaffer's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:37:35 -0700") References: <20240709225042.2005233-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:36:57 -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: EFFDA034-3FBC-11EF-BEEC-965B910A682E-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Emily Shaffer writes: > ...but this seems harder to keep track of. Where are we remembering > these "due dates" and remembering to break them on purpose? I'm not > sure that there's a good way to enforce this. If you come up with a good way, let me know. We have a few "test balloons" in the code base and a due date that allows us to say "now it is 18 months since this test balloon was raised, and nobody complained, so we can safely assume that all compilers that matter to users of this project support this language construct just fine" would be a wonderful thing to have.