From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 11:41:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rply2hs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imiydv15.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:30:46 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
Sounds like a fine rule! I'll put it in now.
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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
2020-03-21 18:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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