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Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home
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Ethan Blanton |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home |
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Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:38:31 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Nuno Lucas spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >Hrm, there is a minor problem with this approach, which is that
> >needing an "optimize" command at all is a bug; a design goal is that
> >we would be fast without requiring users bother with such things.
> >(Compare how annoying it is to have to "defragment" on windows, while
> >unix filesystems are generally smart enough to make it simply
> >unnecessary.)
>
> While I agree with you in theory, the thing is that if there was no
> need of an optimize command then there would be no need of a phone
> home feature (after all, everything was optimized already, so any
> statistic would be just to confirm what we would already know, or to
> send behaviour statistic that no one would care).
Except use cases for usability ...
Ethan
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home, (continued)
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- [Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] M.T. phone home, Wim Oudshoorn, 2006/06/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home, hendrik, 2006/06/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/06/08
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