Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:08:16AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 13/01/2020 23.36, John Snow wrote: >> > Right now, we don't >> > really have these docs hosted in a searchable way online in a >> > per-version format. Once the notice is gone, it's gone from the mirror. >> > >> > I removed some bitmap functionality not too long ago and I created a >> > "Recently Removed" section as a bit of a troubleshooting guide should it >> > be needed. >> > >> > - Do we want this section? >> > - Should I remove it? >> > - Can we add historical docs to the website to see previous deprecated >> > docs in a searchable manner? >> >> I also once started a page in the Wiki here: >> >> https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/RemovedFeatures >> >> ... but apparently, it did not get enough attention yet, otherwise you >> would have noticed it before introducing the new chapter into the >> qemu-doc ... >> >> We definitely need one spot where we can document removed features. I >> don't mind which way we do it, either the qemu-doc or the wiki, but we >> should unify on one of the two. I guess the qemu-doc is the better place >> since we are tracking the deprecated features there already and one more >> or less just has to move the text to the other chapter when things get >> finally removed? > > Yeah, I've said in the past that we should not be deleting deprecations > from the docs entirely. > > If you look at GTK docs for example, you'll see they keep a record of > all incompatible or noteworth changes between release: > > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-3-x-to-y.html > > IMHO, we should follow this and have an appendix of removed features, > with sub-sections per QEMU release listing each removed feature. Thus > deprecation docs just get moved to this appendix at the right time.
This is exactly the "Recently Removed" appendix John added in commit 3264ffced3d. Now we need a sucker^Wvolunteer to restore all the stuff we dropped from appendix "Deprecated features" to this appendix. John, you were incautious enough to signal you care; what about you?
