Finally someone who understands the beauty of this instead of "my favourite DE is ..."! This, coupled with the detailed explanation and rationale for the chang

Finally someone who understands the beauty of this instead of "my favourite DE is ..."! This, coupled with the detailed explanation and rationale for the change, the explicit deadline, seems to me like an exemplar of good practice for free software community projects. It is not surprising that this came at a time when Debian is also discussing init systems, and hopefully the same well-thought approach will work there too. And that matters not just for Debian but for all distros IMHO, because it sets a precedent of how you do these things without fucking up your userbase and/or your developers.