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>So this is an “announcement” much in the way a windshield announces its presence to bugs on a highway This is a very poetic way to describe API deprecation. I

>So this is an “announcement” much in the way a windshield announces its presence to bugs on a highway This is a very poetic way to describe API deprecation. I'm gonna steal this.

booleandilemma 6y ago
And just like one must scrape bugs off one’s windshield, so people will have to scrape content off Goodreads, or something.
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chrismorgan 6y ago
Except this isn’t so much deprecation as removal. Deprecation says “we don’t recommend this any more, and it’ll probably be removed in the future”. Deprecation would be quite unlike the windshield analogy, because it is an announcement. (It’s not quite cut and dried in this case because there may still be some people that still have access to the API—but those that have been cut off look to have no recourse.)
- ignoramous 6y ago
  > Except this isn’t so much deprecation as removal. Deprecation says “we don’t recommend this any more, and it’ll probably be removed in the future”. At AWS, I was "put on a pedestal" for stating (in an internal forum) that X was deprecated (I meant it in a sense it was "not recommended anymore" and wasn't updated at all)... The management thought it sent the wrong message (that is, deprecation == removal). People often associate wrong meaning to deprecation (ironic in my case given Amazon is a Java shop).
  - jefftk 6y ago
    I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away. If instead, X is in maintenance mode but with no plans to drop support, to me that is not deprecated? It sounds like perhaps X was in the earlier state of not being recommended for new projects?
    - ignoramous 6y ago
      X is a public AWS service. > I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away. Yes, everyone (internally but privately) was told to not touch it with a ten-foot and migrate away. Mentioning that it was "deprecated" apparently took it a step too far (even if internally but not privately).
  - efdee 6y ago
    Super off-topic, for which I apologize, but being put on a pedestal means being admired. Probably the opposite of what you meant.

>So this is an “announcement” much in the way a windshield announces its presence to bugs on a highway This is a very poetic way to describe API deprecation. I'm gonna steal this.

booleandilemma 6y ago

And just like one must scrape bugs off one’s windshield, so people will have to scrape content off Goodreads, or something.

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chrismorgan 6y ago

Except this isn’t so much deprecation as removal. Deprecation says “we don’t recommend this any more, and it’ll probably be removed in the future”. Deprecation would be quite unlike the windshield analogy, because it is an announcement. (It’s not quite cut and dried in this case because there may still be some people that still have access to the API—but those that have been cut off look to have no recourse.)

ignoramous 6y ago
> Except this isn’t so much deprecation as removal. Deprecation says “we don’t recommend this any more, and it’ll probably be removed in the future”. At AWS, I was "put on a pedestal" for stating (in an internal forum) that X was deprecated (I meant it in a sense it was "not recommended anymore" and wasn't updated at all)... The management thought it sent the wrong message (that is, deprecation == removal). People often associate wrong meaning to deprecation (ironic in my case given Amazon is a Java shop).
- jefftk 6y ago
  I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away. If instead, X is in maintenance mode but with no plans to drop support, to me that is not deprecated? It sounds like perhaps X was in the earlier state of not being recommended for new projects?
  - ignoramous 6y ago
    X is a public AWS service. > I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away. Yes, everyone (internally but privately) was told to not touch it with a ten-foot and migrate away. Mentioning that it was "deprecated" apparently took it a step too far (even if internally but not privately).
- efdee 6y ago
  Super off-topic, for which I apologize, but being put on a pedestal means being admired. Probably the opposite of what you meant.