[Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

[yuppie]

Hi Chris!


Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:09 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> No matter what period we decide on it will always be too short for some
>> and too long for others. With the current setup the deprecation period
>> is a year, which seems like a decent middle ground.
> 
> A year suits me fine if it were the *actual* deprecation period, rather
> than the six-month deprecation cycle as is the case with zLOG and the
> eight-month deprecation cycle as is the case with 'methods'.

As the person who added the deprecation warning for 'methods':

If you calculate the deprecation cycle from the day the warning was 
added I agree it is too short. Reading the sources I had the impression 
that the fact there was no warning for the deprecated feature was a bug 
and I did consider my change a bugfix. Without warning it was already 
deprecated for many years.

I'm fine with extending the deprecation period by one more release cycle.


Cheers,

	Yuppie