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Change wording after talking to Alex
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terrajobst committed Nov 17, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -100,13 +100,9 @@ For buckets #2 and #3 we apply a risk-benefit analysis. It doesn't matter if the
old behavior is "wrong", we still need to think through the implications. This
can result in one of the following outcomes:

* **Accepted with quirking**. Depending on the estimated customer impact, we may
decide to "quirk" the behavior. That means, that the new behavior is only
exposed to apps that are compiled against the version of .NET Core that
introduced the change. In other words, apps running against a shared framework
will not see the behavior if they were compiled against an older version of
.NET Core and thus wouldn't have been tested in the context of the behavioral
change.
* **Accepted with compat switch**. Depending on the estimated customer impact,
we may decide to add a compat switch that allows consumers to bring back the
old behavior if neessary.

* **Accepted**. In some minor cases, we may decide to accept the change if the
the benefit is large and the risk is super low or if the risk is moderate and
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