Re: Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> All in all, I guess my position is unchanged: despite the potential for
> surprises, automating and enforcing these configs provide benefits that
> outweigh the cons, in my experience/opinion.

I concur.

In light of efforts to reduce cognitive overhead, I think it is a good
idea to automatically use the default configuration.  Contributors can
opt out, but I prefer not to have to think about yet another important
piece of configuration here.

-- 
Ricardo