Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:06:44 +0100
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, juri@linkov.net, 
> rms@gnu.org, 
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> But in general, backwards compatibility complaints are taken seriously
> no matter the sender.  In fact, this project sometimes goes to extreme
> lengths simply to maintain backwards-compatibility even in the most
> minor and inconsequential cases.
> 
> But of course on occasion we trip up: we don't pay enough attention to
> this aspect, or we take it much too far.  Both are equally bad, IMHO.
> To my mind, we need to take a balanced view.  I don't see how a hard
> rule (or even a soft one) will help us do that better.

100% agreement.