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> project mailing lists, Github issue tracker, project IRC channel, documentation (changelog, FAQ), and Twitter channels It's hardly a notice posted in a sub-
by Twirrim 6y ago
> project mailing lists, Github issue tracker, project IRC channel, documentation (changelog, FAQ), and Twitter channels
It's hardly a notice posted in a sub-basement 6 months before instituting a breaking change. They communicated via numerous mechanisms.
- klyrs 6y agoIt's a sub-basement from the perspective of folks for whom this is a second-order dependency. And it sounds like there are many more of them than there are folks that caught wind of this. Regardless. The common practice is a year of emitting warnings from the software, that the end-user will see. That's prominent and allows package maintainers enough time to work around the upcoming breakage. Six months notice on a mailing list is simply not prominent enough, and it's half the standard year which puts undue strain downstream.
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