On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:03 AM, JD Horelick <jdho...@gmail.com> wrote: > My only issue here is that I feel like we should give users a bit longer > than one month (34 days, close enough) to make this change. In some cases, > it may require a large, architectural change which may take a while to be > engineered and organized. I'd suggest making the cutoff for this January 1, > 2014. I know that impedes our progress, but I feel it provides significant > benefit to our users who may use seperate /usr.
30 days was approved by the Council after some discussion. The fact that this was coming was announced about 45 days ago now, though it did not include a news item. This really isn't much different than any other change that has a potential to break systems, and we do not routinely give many months of warning for these. Rich