On 28 June 2016 at 15:48, Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> wrote:
So in this situation, when a government cannot come to consensus within
their own divisions, who do we listen to?
We listen to Paul. The world’s computer’s will listen to Paul. And the people of Egypt will listen to their phones and computers. :-)
We should obviously have no desire to take sides in Egyptian Parliament v Egyptian Prime Minister… but seeing as one such set of changes has already been released (in 2016e), from our standpoint, inertia should probably be a strong factor in our decisions here, where there is an absence of internal political consensus. Since quite a lot of confusion is bound to be unavoidable either way, I think it's likely best not to introduce additional uncertainty and to sit on future changes until it is more clear what people actually do. This would also help to keep any future advice in response to that confusion as simple as possible (e.g., "use $VERSION or later", "don't use $VERSION_A through $VERSION_B", rather than dealing with any number of possible intermediate and alternating states). -- Tim Parenti