From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 7725fbc: Remove the Date header from message-draft-headers
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:30:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imiydv15.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a74ayh5x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:12:26 -0700)
> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:12:26 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Oh, and one other thing -- perhaps this should be mentioned in NEWS?
>
> I've never really known what's NEWS-worthy and what isn't. My gut tells
> me that changing an option's default -- when the new value doesn't
> represent an addition or removal of features -- isn't worth it.
My rule is: if there's a doubt, then there's no doubt, and the change
should be in NEWS. The reason is simple: there are no downsides to
putting unimportant stuff there, but users do get annoyed by changes
that aren't called out there. So, a net win.
Thanks.
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2020-03-20 18:58 ` master 7725fbc: Remove the Date header from message-draft-headers Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-03-20 19:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-03-21 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-21 18:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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