On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:56:15AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> If we're going to actually mark it deprecated then it should be, at
> least, a yearly discussion about removing it. I'm generally more in
> favor of either just keeping it, or just removing it, though. We've had
> very little success marking things as deprecated as a way of getting
> everyone to stop using it- some folks will stop using it right away and
> those are the same people who would just adapt to it being gone in the
> next major version quickly, and then there's folks who won't do anything
> until it's actually gone (and maybe not even then). There really isn't
> a serious middle-ground where deprecation is helpful given our yearly
> release cycle and long major version support period.
Fair point.
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