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Subject: Re: [docbook] Policy on backwards incompatible changes
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote: > Keith Fahlgren wrote: > >> What is the community's feeling of the cause of the concern over >> incompatible changes? > > A fairly long established principle that you don't mess up > installations more than you have to? Understood, but 2008 is a much different world the one in which you're describing ("long established") & the one in which these standards processes were developed. I think it's an understanding of that shift that prompted Norm's initial post: """ It was suggested at the last telcon that perhaps these rules are too strict for the internet age. """ Keith
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