K. That's essentially what this boils down to: semver hangover. People
just _assume_ that's how any project now rolls.

On 7/10/12 3:20 PM, "Brian LeRoux" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Oh agree completely, if we assign meaning (like majors meaning an API
>change) then sure it effects it. I think is mostly a hangover from
>semver thinking --- and increasingly thinking that semver not the
>right fit for this proj. We have too many dependencies on outside libs
>to formalize deprecation to a 1 year cycle.
>
>On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>One thing I'd like to add: cadence has nothing to do w/ deprecation
>>>policy. Shipping on a regular heartbeat is a completely different
>>>concern from the actual artifacts being shipped.
>>
>> Well, the two are interconnected. If we ship a point release every
>>month,
>> and state that we have a deprecation policy of 6 months, that means we
>>can
>> break an API 6 point releases or so after deciding an API is deprecated.
>> So these don't necessarily line up with landing breaking changes in
>>major
>> releases.
>>

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