On 18-03-2020 22:55, Noel Butler wrote:
On 19/03/2020 03:56, JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ wrote:
I fully agree with this:
Please consider holding off on removing features for the next major
release, 2.4.0 instead. It makes sense to retain, in as much as is
possible, feature backwards compatibility across a major release.
I'm astonished that features are being removed in a dot release as well,
no other major project does this, hell, most don't like adding new
features in dot releases let alone stripping them out.
None of the listed changes affect me that I can see, but I've been
around a long time and I'm flabbergasted that someone actually approved
this on dot release.
Now although there is no real need for them to further upgrade to ensure
business continuity, if a serious exploit is released in the wild they
highly likely will get bitten. Stripping everything else at once in a
new major is perfectly acceptable, and, is the norm.
I have to say that I also cannot understand why you're going to remove
features from a dot release. You can give the heads-up here, but it is
not common-practice and will very likely break a lot of setups.
It's understandable that you want to remove features that are hardly
used or maintained, but not in a dot release.
Please reconsider this removal, and remove those features as of the next
major release.
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Kind regards,
Rob
