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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 19:54 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No reason to take on tech debt if we don't have to. Certainly if a bunch of
> > people reply that it's an issue it's not impossible to do that. But cruft is
> > cruft, I'd rather be proactive on cleaning it.
> 
> You will not be able to find all that might use the old name by asking
> Ubuntu Phone mailing list :).



Certainly, but the fix is trivial, so when people notice it broken
they'll fix their script and move on. But if they're not aware of it,
they'll do an investigation and waste time on that. The goal is to make
people aware of it so they can fix problems quickly if they do arise.


> Hence, providing deprecation with warnings etc. for a while sounds
> like the way to go for name transitions like this.
> 
> Is the cost of carrying that "debt" really that bad?


You still have the same transition cost whether it's next week or or
next month when you drop those names. I don't see any reason not to have
it now rather than later. I'd rather do the full transition at some
point than to do it partially.

Ted

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