https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160580
--- Comment #22 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> --- (In reply to ady from comment #21) > Talking about the specific issue (not as a general concept), the request in > tdf#156311 should had been optional, not imposed to everyone. It was not > _that_ hard to imagine that the change of behavior would not be welcome by > many users (myself included), and the reports about it were almost immediate. Reading bug 156311 comment 2, I realize that you were one of the first to answer there. And two more comments there. And in all of them, I see no sign of a warning that this is not what you want (i.e., that there are use cases that need the old behavior). Only some terminology discussion and mention of inconsistencies in OSes. The *creator* of an enhancement request is *never* expected to "make their requests optional". The author wants *their* problem fixed; it's not their task to think about others. And speaking about others: of course, there *are* cases when it's easy to imagine the other use cases. And I tell you, that most people are so cool that they can predict 100% of the problems that this change would bring ... in the hindsight. But almost always, when I raise my voice in bugs where I feel that the current behavior must be kept (maybe optionally), I see *many* people not understanding what seems obvious to me. So - no, it's NOT "not _that_ hard". What was really not _that_ hard is to realize that your tone (from start here) is not OK, and your posts imply that others have no right for a mistake. Again: the project favors rapid changes, and relies on *users feedback* to learn, iteratively improving. It is *reasonable* to assume that any change should be unconditional, unless there is a good reason to believe otherwise. It is OK to introduce behavior change, and it will pay off, if it turns out uncontroversial; and if it turns out needing the configuration, it's something we will now know for sure, because users told that. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
