On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:47 AM Emmanuel Vadot <m...@bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:04:15 -0700 (PDT) > "Rodney W. Grimes" <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > We need to STOP these "I dont like the 20 year old defaults, > > so I am going to change them to what I like and use" It is NOT > > forward progress on making a better system, it is tilting at > > defaults, very long established defaults, that should probably > > just be left alone. > > It's not "I don't like", it's "We don't like". If we can't change > FreeBSD default to what most of our users want I don't know why we're > still working on this OS. > **We** can change the defaults. But to know that we, as a community, have consensus to make the change, we need to have a conversation. Having that conversation before making the change seems like a much better [*] approach than presenting the change as a fait accompli and waiting for dissent. In other words, I am okay with changing the default (I personally do not feel a need for it), but am unhappy that there was no conversation about it other than a phabricator review that was apparently only open for about a day. -Ben * I have some other, more precise, adjectives I would like to use, but I think the risk of them being interpreted harmfully is too high to use them in this forum. I'm happy to talk more in some other forum if you want.
