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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
Date: | Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:03:31 +0000 |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) |
Perhaps I did not look at the right place, but I do not see such a rule or guideline in CONTRIBUTE or elsewhere. What do you (and others) think of the following:Any change that matters to end-users should have an entry in etc/NEWS. *In principle, any such change should, unless it is an added feature, either require setting a variable to be enabled, or be reversible by setting a variable.*I am against such a change, for the reasons given in my previous message.
Which previous message? I don't see reasons against such a guideline in your previous message sent to this list.
Do you have any evidence to back up the claim that this has happened?It happened with y-or-n-p; it would not have happened with the above guideline.I don't think the second part of that sentence logically follows from the first.
Just look at the entry for this change in NEWS.27 (and the read-char-from-minibuffer one), which does not explain how to revert it, unlike the three other entries in the "Minibuffer" section:
*** 'y-or-n-p' now uses the minibuffer to read 'y' or 'n' answer.*** Some commands that previously used 'read-char-choice' now read a character using the minibuffer by 'read-char-from-minibuffer'.
It seems to me that the "Any change that matters to end-users should have an entry in etc/NEWS" rule in CONTRIBUTE, which is already applied successfully, is also a good way to distinguish changes that are potentially controversial from the others, hence the proposal above.
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