On 05.08.2011 06:26, Greg Stein wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2011 11:43 PM, "Branko Čibej" <br...@e-reka.si > <mailto:br...@e-reka.si>> wrote: > >... > > Speaking of politicking, I don't see any technical explanation for > > Greg's veto in the 1.7.x STATUS, which causes me to wonder why anyone is > > treating it as valid in the first place. > > The change goes against our previously-stated direction. Using Neon > holds us back from future improvements (discussed across many > threads), so I consider such a change a regression in our codebase. >
All of the above falls under the heading of hand-waving. > There are no registered and actionable bugs. > You have a point there. It's up to the people who talk about real-world problems with serf to actually submit bugs. Of course, given the nature of the bugs, they'll most likely be close to impossible to reproduce. > We made serf the default shortly after 1.6.x was branched. It has been > the default for two+ years. > During which time close to zero real-world users actually used serf. > Changing the default does not help in our project's intended > direction, nor indication that we would avoid this same discussion > next time around. This is the time to move forward, as we have done > with so many other moving parts of this project. > None of the changes to date were so potentially destructive to existing installations. Note the "potentially" -- it's up to the people who are vocal against ra_serf to provide the real-life examples, since otherwise this whole discussion is nothing but hot air and we might as well toss a coin and get the same information content. -- Brane
