Russ Cox

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No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

It would help a lot to decide what the right answer is here if we understood better what people still use GOPATH mode (non-module mode) for at all. What are...

GOPATH does not seem relevant here. //go:build lines that downgrade are not supposed to downgrade past the "event horizon" of Go 1.21, because in earlier versions of Go those lines...

I see what happened. The downgrade was disabled when the default Go version was old, but now that the default Go version in non-module code is "new", the downgrade is...

> @rsc Just to be clear, the suggested change will ignore any file-specific downgrade to a version lower than 1.21. Is that your suggestion? Yes, that's right. There's no good...

Just got one of these in a trybot. All the failures here are just barely over 100kB. Sent CL 628795 to bump the limit to 128 kB.

This seems like a Go2 change to me. (It's not some tiny incremental thing. It's a real language change.)

Beyond the confusion about an explicit setting and a separate environment variable setting, the other problem with go env -w GOTELEMETRY=... is that every program with telemetry now has to...

This proposal has been **[declined as infeasible](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#declined-as-infeasible)**. — rsc for the proposal review group

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...