On 02.05.2018 11:03, Liviu Ionescu wrote: > On 2 May 2018 at 11:13:49, Thomas Huth (th...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Deprecated-features > > Thank you, Thomas. > >> It took quite a while to get a consensus on that policy, so I don't >> think that we want to sacrifice that for semver. > > ok, this might be a point. > > thinking twice, I'm not sure it is a real sacrifice; I think that the > problem here is the strict definition: > > "The feature will remain functional for 2 releases prior to actual removal." > > if it were: > > "The feature will remain functional for _at least_ 2 releases prior to > actual removal. " > > or even better: > > "The feature will remain functional for _at least_ 2 _major_ releases > prior to actual removal. "
Sorry, but this really does not match with what we discussed last year (see the thread at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg01592.html for example), so I doubt that we can get a consensus on this for QEMU. Thomas