On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 07:22:39PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > In Git, we make most decisions by a rough consensus of active > contributors, as judged by the maintainer.[...] Thanks for writing this out. I agree completely with how you described the decision making process. We do bear the responsibility to think carefully about our users, and to respect their time, and their expectations that things don't break. But as with any feature, it's a juggling act between stability and progress that developers and the maintainer must deal with. Somebody might not care about this name change, but likewise, others might not care about a particular technical feature. At some point users have to put their trust in Git's developers that the end product will be stable and useful. If we break that trust too much, then forking is an option, as you note. Our track record has been pretty good so far, and I think if we approach this change carefully, it can continue to be. -Peff
