On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> A number of items on the 1.8 todo list are reminders to remove things >> that we deprecated in 1.7, and said we would remove in 1.8, e.g.: >> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/596 >> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/294 >> >> But, since 1.8 is so soon after 1.7, we probably shouldn't actually do that. >> >> I suggest we switch to a time-based deprecation schedule, where >> instead of saying "this will be removed in N releases" we say "this >> will be removed in the first release on or after (now+N months)". > > We can always delay removal if a particular release comes sooner than > originally expected. The deprecation policy is just that we specify > minimum version numbers at which the features can be removed. It's not > really a firm schedule. > > I do take your suggestion to heart, though. We shouldn't remove stuff > faster than 12 months or so. I just think that it should modify our > release process, not our "marking for deprecation" process.
I'm not sure what this means in practical terms, though? Take the stuff deprecated in 1.7, released 2013-02-10. From here it seems plausible that the first release after 2014-02-10 could be 1.9, 1.10, or even, if we end up really embracing the small-quick-release cycle, 1.11. So which should we write down as our expected version number for the 1.7 deprecations? -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
