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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID any
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore |
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Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:52:52 -0600 |
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On 1/9/19 11:38 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>
> <general whining>
> Actually, to me what you're saying sounds more like "Our deprecation
> policy is useless" to which I wholeheartedly agree. I think we should
> only remove things in major releases, and only if it was deprecated in
> the previous major release already. (So if you deprecate something in
> 4.0, you can remove it in 5.0; but if you deprecate it in 4.1, you can
> remove it only in 6.0.) From a user standpoint I really think we
> deprecate stuff too irregularly.
> </general whining>
That's actually incorrect. Our current version numbering scheme is that
the major version number is NOT synonymous with major releases: we just
bump the major version number once per year, and ALL releases are on
equal footing with no one release being more major than others. Thus, a
policy that (at least) 2 releases is needed for a deprecation is
consistent, where one that requires waiting for a bump in the major
version number (which is as short as one release and as long as 3, given
that we bump every year with about 3 releases per year) is the one that
is less predictable and less meaningful (why is waiting for January
better than waiting for 2 releases?).
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Markus Armbruster, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Max Reitz, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Kevin Wolf, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Max Reitz, 2019/01/09
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Daniel Henrique Barboza, 2019/01/09
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Daniel Henrique Barboza, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Max Reitz, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Eric Blake, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Kevin Wolf, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Eric Blake, 2019/01/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Kevin Wolf, 2019/01/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2019/01/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Daniel Henrique Barboza, 2019/01/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Kevin Wolf, 2019/01/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] HMP/snapshot changes - do not use ID anymore, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2019/01/10