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When did maintenance mode become deprecated? Why isnt that hyperbole?

• hombre_fatal 7y ago
  They have marked the package as deprecated on NPM. https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/deprecate https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/deprecate See the banner on this page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/request https://www.npmjs.com/package/request They are urging people to consider the enumerated alternatives.
  • tantalor 7y ago
    > No new changes are expected land. In fact, none have landed for some time. That's not what "deprecated" means. That's "maintenance mode". Deprecated means no new clients should use it, and existing clients should migrate to library X or Y, because it's going to be deleted by 202X.
    • hombre_fatal 7y ago
      They don't want to maintain this software forever and are definitely urging people to use other software. They even admit that they will merge fix PRs with a disclaimer of "no promises". I mean, the developer themself has said it's deprecated and has marked it as such formally on NPM with a link to a post that urges people to use alternatives, so I'm unsure of what you're arguing nor what it achieves. Seems to satisfy your own definition, they just don't have an exact date on when their maintenance charity will run out.
  • wnevets 7y ago
    >They have marked the package as deprecated on NPM. Fair enough, the OP link didnt actually mention deprecated anywhere.
• outside1234 7y ago
  They don't expect maintenance mode to last forever and they don't want new developers to use it.
• deleted 7y ago
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