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What Jarkko said. On Mar 25, 2010, at 08:00, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > I have one case where the v1 and v2 of a module are simply > incompatible, but v1 still works, and unless the users have a > compelling reason, they won't migrate. Pulling the rug from under > them would be quite unsportsmanlike. > > Deletion should be opt-in, and there should be a way to "pin" some > releases as unreapable. And warning emails (yes, some email addresses > are blackholes) to the author well in advance: "your module X version > Y will be deleted as you requested in Z weeks because there are P > newer releases ..." > > -- > There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is > 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Slashdot / Geeknet pudge@slashdot.org http://slashdot.org/Thread Previous | Thread Next