On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 04:09:48PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> On 18 September 2015 at 15:35, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:29:30PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> > > Commit fe089c0d1e18 ("vlog: abstract out interface to syslog daemon")
> > > introduced --syslog-method flag that supersedes --syslog-target flag by:
> > > 1. making logging format configurable
> > > 2. letting daemon to also talk over UNIX domain socket (this is handy
> > > when local rsyslog daemon is running in different network namespace
> > > on the same host)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com>
> > > ---
> > > NEWS | 1 +
> > > lib/vlog.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> > > index ca22c8e..8bdaf3e 100644
> > > --- a/NEWS
> > > +++ b/NEWS
> > > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Post-v2.4.0
> > > targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run
> > inside
> > > a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
> > > - Dropped support for GRE64 tunnel.
> > > + - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated.
> >
> > In the past when we've deprecated features we've also given a date after
> > which we might remove the feature. It's usually 6 to 12 months out. Do
> > you want to do that here?
> >
>
> > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> >
> I will mark this as "to be removed in 6 months" and push.
Can you give a specific date (e.g. "March 2016") so that users don't
have to guess what the start date is?
> Do you think that we should have a sentence or two in CONTRIBUTING.md file
> about "feature deprecation guidelines"? If so I can try to write this up.
That sounds like a good idea to me.
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