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> I'd like us to adopt a policy of actually removing things that we deprecate. > I'd like it to be consistent - everything first deprecated "now" is removed > "then". Otherwise people will become complacent about rewriting things - > "oh, they don't really mean it" > > As I'd also like it to be "1 major release" between "now" and "then", I don't > like the idea of deprecating something for 5.12, but only removing it in 5.16. It's important to me that we put calendar time into the mix here. If we deprecate something in 5.12 and 5.14 comes out 9 months later (not likely, I know), that doesn't feel like sufficient notice to the world. Maybe something like "Deprecated features may be removed from blead 24 months after a shipped maint first warns about them"?Thread Previous | Thread Next