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A lot of software has gone through changes which, in retrospect, I would describe as “traumatic” to their communities. I recognize these sorts of changes by their effect: we might have pulled through in the end, but only after a lot of heartbreak, struggle, and hours of wasted hacking; but the change left a scar on the community. There are two common cases in which a change risks introducing this kind of trauma: It requires everyone in the community, or nearly everyone, to overhaul their code t...