[neomutt-devel] Fwd: Re: New marching orders - reviving dead mailing list

Reto reto at labrat.space
Sat Feb 27 13:49:12 CET 2021


On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 01:31:20PM +0100, toogley at nixnet.email wrote:
> So flatcap doesn't like breaking changes, because users have the trouble
> to fix their config.

No one likes breaking changes, I'm with flat there.

And in fact here's a half an hour long talk from Greg KH telling you just the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUifDVMHUXw

Tl;Dr; Don't break your users.

Rather do gradual updates just as neomutt is doing now and then after all users
went away remove stale things (and yes this can take ages).


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