FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Casey Dahlin]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:28 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>
>   
>> In light of this, I have a proposal:
>>
>> We fix our specs to not use autoconf, and remove the old versions as 
>> stated, but we keep them around, perhaps in another branch in CVS or 
>> simply removed from the F10 tag. Then we just wait for complaints. If 
>> someone comes in and says "I was actively using that" we can just slap 
>> it back in. After one release cycle we can flush the rest.
>>
>>     
>
> And we do all this work because we have nothing better to do ?
> Whats the gain, again ?
>
>   
The gain is we decide what to keep and what not to keep based on who 
actually is willing to fight to keep it around rather than whoever feels 
like complaining on devel list. Its a corollary to "its easier to 
apologize than to ask permission," the people who notice the change are 
a tiny and far more important subset than the people who will complain 
ahead of time.

--CJD