Re: New deprecation procedure

Ulrich Weigand
2014-09-12T08:51:31Z

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Sharing a thought that crossed my mind: I thought about increasing
> the amount of time we wait between steps, from 1 week to say, 2 weeks,
> giving anyone about a month to step up. I eventually dropped the idea
> because someone stepping up late should easily be able to revert
> the removal, particularly now that we've switched to git. In the
> meantime, since we suspect no-one is usually going to step up,
> waiting longer just defers the corresponding cleanups we want to do.
> If you guys agree with that, I'll add something to the wiki page
> to explain the thought process.

Makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Ulrich

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