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<p>Just add a comment in News of a possibly breaking change [...]</p>
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<p>That's telling the pull requester to do something, not suggesting.</p>

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<p>I am not "arbitrarily imposing" anything, or intending to create any project wide rule.</p>
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<p>Well, you told the pull requester to do something that's not required, which makes it rather arbitrary. I was just saying I don't think we should do that. Apologies if I misunderstood, my English isn't very strong.</p>

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