Re: [PATCH] docs/system: clarify deprecation scheduled

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:47:36AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The sentence explaining the deprecation schedule is ambiguous. Make it
> clear that a feature deprecated in the Nth release is guaranteed to
> remain available in the N+1th release. Removal can occur in the N+2nd
> release or later.
> 
> As an example of this in action, see commit
> 25956af3fe5dd0385ad8017bc768a6afe41e2a74 ("block: Finish deprecation of
> 'qemu-img convert -n -o'"). The feature was deprecated in QEMU 4.2.0. It
> was present in the 5.0.0 release and removed in the 5.1.0 release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Ping?

> 
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 851dbdeb8a..fecfb2f1c1 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Deprecated features
>  In general features are intended to be supported indefinitely once
>  introduced into QEMU. In the event that a feature needs to be removed,
>  it will be listed in this section. The feature will remain functional
> -for 2 releases prior to actual removal. Deprecated features may also
> -generate warnings on the console when QEMU starts up, or if activated
> -via a monitor command, however, this is not a mandatory requirement.
> +for 1 more release after deprecation. Deprecated features may also generate
> +warnings on the console when QEMU starts up, or if activated via a monitor
> +command, however, this is not a mandatory requirement.
>  
>  Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how
>  long features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>

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