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On Thursday 15 October 2009 09:44:19 jesse wrote: > 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"? Minor suggestion: give the *date* at which the deprecated feature may no longer exist, not an offset from a release date people will have to look up. As a policy, your wording is fine. In the list of deprecations, concrete calendar dates are easier to understand. -- cThread Previous | Thread Next