From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gitlab Migration Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:38:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> <83tujbqg4j.fsf@gnu.org> <46353190-1190-495f-b15e-22980159b3ab@yandex.ru> <83y28mp0rb.fsf@gnu.org> <51a363db-fde7-791d-cf8d-98ac601d62ee@yandex.ru> <57ca4d78-2339-201d-edce-678c9b003a99@yandex.ru> <83bl5dsh8b.fsf@gnu.org> <8335qps8vs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40600"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 05:40:39 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mLdag-000AL4-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2021 05:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39794 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLdaf-0000cD-E4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLdZ3-0006gw-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLdZ2-0003dM-4J; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:38:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mLdZ1-0003WF-VV; Wed, 01 Sep 2021 23:38:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:35:10 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273690 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Ah, but the model is opt-in to change, not opt-out. Thus > opponents of change start off with an advantage That's ok. We don't have any obligation to be "fair" to wishes for changes that other users don't like. > * Previews of features that will become defaults with opt-out It is useful to offer previews of changed interfaces, but whether to make the other interface the default some day is a question we should decide after seeing users' reaction -- not in advance. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)