[Monotone-devel] Re: Flag day

[Paul Crowley]

William Uther wrote:
> I've got some netsync changes I'd like to make:
>   - treat unkown keys as anonymous connections
>   - auto fallback from 'sync' to just 'pull' if that's all you have 
> perms for
>
> Is this the sort of thing to go in the flag day too?  Or is a netsync 
> change much less of an issue?

I've just Googled and none of the definitions online capture the sense 
in which I'm using the term, so I'll explain what I mean: in this sense, 
a change requires a Flag Day if those running the old software can't 
talk to those running the new software, so everyone has to upgrade at 
once.  In this case I'm talking about an even bigger flag day, because 
we are probably going to invalidate all of the signatures on all of the 
certificates, with the result that (as has happened before) they all end 
up signed only by your server.
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