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From: Antony Blakey <antony.blakey@gmail.com>
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Subject: Fwd: Transactional _bulk_docs
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:27:45 +1030
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Begin forwarded message:

> Gentlemen,
>
> I'm really hanging out on this issue. So far Damien has said that  
> the transactional group-operation is definitely being removed,  
> whilst Chris has said absolutely that no decision has been made.
>
> This has serious implications for me, because my code assumes a  
> transactional _bulk_docs implementation.
>
> If it's being left as is, or simply being renamed, then I can move  
> forward. If it's being removed, then I'm going to have to maintain a  
> private fork, because I presume that a decision to remove it rather  
> than rename it means that you wouldn't accept a patch that simply  
> adds that code under a different name (otherwise, why remove it when  
> you could just rename it?).
>
> Having to maintain a private fork has other serious implications for  
> me.
>
> Is there some other way I need to approach this to get a resolution?
>
> Thanks,

Antony Blakey
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