> From: Chiron <chiron613.no.spam.@no.s...>
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:59:34 GMT
>
> I am arguing for the right of the current maintainers to make or to not
> make whatever changes they feel are appropriate; and I am saying that if
> the maintainers don't choose to make certain changes, that does not
> necessarily make them fossils, behind the times, stupid, or whatever.  It
> may simply be that they don't think those changes are important.

A purely theoretical argument that is not relevant to the reality (in
which the maintainers _do_ make changes requested by users, albeit not
automatically and not without discussing them first).