Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] docs: document support lifetime and deprecation policy

2017-05-11 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:39:02PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:15:35PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The deprecation of features in QEMU is totally adhoc currently, > > with no way for the user to get a list of what is deprecated > > in each release. There is a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] docs: document support lifetime and deprecation policy

2017-05-10 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:15:35PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The deprecation of features in QEMU is totally adhoc currently, > with no way for the user to get a list of what is deprecated > in each release. There is also no guidance on the duration of > support for features such as version

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] docs: document support lifetime and deprecation policy

2017-05-10 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
The deprecation of features in QEMU is totally adhoc currently, with no way for the user to get a list of what is deprecated in each release. There is also no guidance on the duration of support for features such as versioned machine types, which have a finite useful life. This adds two new append