On 2018-05-20, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote:
> This time, I tried to start a discussion first, and I got no response.
> There were attempts to modernize the codebase about a year ago. AFAICS
> there was no discussion then.
True. I for one didn't expect you to try weeding out all deprecated APIs
and TBH didn't understand what you've been aking for.
> I hear that the consensus is "new stuff is for new code, or at least
> whenever one happens to change old code fixing the bugs".
Yes, please, this would be my preference.
What we have seen now are:
* changes that don't get proper review because they are too big
* mistakes (that everybody makes, I'm not complaining about them) slip
through because of the point above
* willing contributors get frustrated and say they'll stop reviewing
anthing or even drop out of the project
* merging from the 1.9 branch to master gets more difficult
For me these drawbacks outweigh all benefits of consistency.
Stefan
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