On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 12:46 AM Tyler Retzlaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > > > + > > > +Promotion to stable > > > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > + > > > +Ordinarily APIs marked as ``experimental`` will be promoted to the > > > stable ABI > > > +once a maintainer and/or the original contributor is satisfied that the > > > API is > > > +reasonably mature. In exceptional circumstances, should an API still be > > > > Is this line with git commit message? > > Why making an exceptional case? why not make it stable after two years > > or remove it. > > My worry is if we make an exception case, it will be difficult to > > enumerate the exception case. > > i think the intent here is to indicate that an api/abi doesn't just > automatically become stable after a period of time. there also has to > be an evaluation by the maintainer / community before making it stable. > > so i guess the timer is something that should force that evaluation. as > a part of that evaluation one would imagine there is justification for > keeping the api as experimental for longer and if so a rationale as to > why.
I think, we need to have a deadline. Probably one year timer for evaluation and two year for max time for decision to make it as stable or remove.
