Re: [Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Changing the Twisted Compatibility Policy

2015-10-26 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
> On Oct 26, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Jonathan Vanasco > wrote: > > From a "non-core user" of twisted point of view, and someone likely to run > into issues from this change... things that I have liked from other projects > are: Thanks very much (and thanks to everyone else as well) for sharing y

Re: [Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Changing the Twisted Compatibility Policy

2015-10-26 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Oct 25, 2015, at 11:34 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > For another, we have no way to hide deprecated APIs in the API documentation. > If a new user is trying to figure out how to do something, if they're doing > it during the deprecation period, they should not start out by using a > depreca

Re: [Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Changing the Twisted Compatibility Policy

2015-10-25 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Amber Hawkie Brown > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > As many know, one of the things that makes the Twisted project so unique is > our conformance to our Compatibility Policy. This policy means that users of > Twisted can freely upgrade between versions with all in

Re: [Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Changing the Twisted Compatibility Policy

2015-10-25 Thread Ray Cote
This is a reasonable change. I say that as someone who rarely tracks individual Twisted releases. We typically upgrade client-deployed applications every three to five years (at the moment, I’m working on upgrading several projects from 12.1 to 15.4). For us, being able to easily track back throu