On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> This honestly sounds more of gatekeeping through laziness than an actual > barrier. > > It does not sound that way to me. It sounds to me like there is a very real problem in redefining, in an INCOMPATIBLE way, a tag which has been used 7,972,733 times. There is no magic wand that can do an automatic global edit because EACH INDIVIDUAL USE must be checked ON THE GROUND to see if the current value is retained under the new definition or if it must be changed. None of those manual changes are going to happen overnight. This means that there will be a period of time, probably YEARS, when consumers can't be sure of what they're getting. Actually, it will take years for 90% changeover and decades to catch it all. At which point in that long transition should editors switch? And when should renderers switch? And when should routeing algorithms switch? This proposal is MADNESS. -- Paul
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