On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 07:05:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
DIP 1013 is titled "The Deprecation Process".
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/d8f6bfa1810c9774bd7d3b3dc6a7a6776ed5e17e/DIPs/DIP1013.md
I've been thinking about the deprecation schedule being measure
in terms of releases, and I don't like it. How was the 10-version
schedule determined anyway; probably because it equated to 2
years under the current release schedule (1 year as a deprecation
warning, 1 year as an error). So time is the intrinsic impetus.
If we were to move to a schedule of releases every 6 months,
would that require a deprecation period of 5 years? I sure hope
not. Or, if we were to move to a schedule of releases every
month, would the deprecation period be only 10 months? Cool!
I suggest making it "a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 10
releases", or something of that nature.
Mike
