I'm late to the discussion here, but I want to add my experience from
dealing with audit logs specifically.
Chronicle has some advantages (binary, compact) but it has a serious
disadvantage from a consumption standpoint. It's not a well-supported file
format. Audit logs are something that I think
itself. So
> the code could be removed for verson+1.
>
> So, would it have made sense to annotate those methods (and variables) as
> deprecated since the version they were written in so the methods/variables
> can be removed in the next version?
>
> If so, what I propose is that all transitional methods and variable be
> marked as deprecated with the version in which they were introduced.
>
>
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Andrew Weaver