A suggestion regarding new features

[shmuel siegel]

Dax Kelson wrote:
> Step 3. Does the benefit of $NEWFEATURE outweigh the cost of changing
> the old behavior or breaking compatibility? Obviously this can be
> subjective.
>
> a) NO -> Good effort. Have you considered picking one of the other many
> areas in Linux that need improving and working on that?
> b) YES -> OK, $NEWFEATURE must be really awesome. Please double check
> that you can't resolve this in Step 2. So Step 2 is a no go? OK, let's
> do it.
>
>   
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Your step 3 should really be step 4. The real step 3 is

Step 3. Will suggesting this change cause more waste of time on useless 
discussions than any perceived gain that the change will achieve.
    a) YES-> Rethink step 2 or drop it. It will get in the way of more 
pressing issues. Winning is not worth the cost.
    b) NO -> go to step 4

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