On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> wrote: > Expectations have been managed poorly. One solution is to take a hard > line on experimental features. If the public knows the Porters mean > business, they'll stop YOLOing so much, and the flag might work as > originally intended. > I think this is right. This given/when situation is the first real test of the experimental designation. If p5p blinks removing an experimental feature because of breakage -- notwithstanding the unusual retroactive application -- then p5p loses all credibility over the meaning of the term. I think either 'given/when' has to go, or 'experimental' has to go. David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdgThread Previous | Thread Next