Rough draft: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/SOLR/pages/449282850/Deprecation+Policy
On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 9:07 AM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe we should have a written deprecation policy somewhere? > > Any way... copy-pasting what I wrote in a related thread: > > If we deprecated something on 10.0 and not 9.x because 9.x doesn't have > the new method/class, my instinct is that we may remove the thing at any > 10.x version (even 10.1) -- need not wait for 11. If we must wait for 11, > I think this imposes too much of a burden on us. > > I guess if folks disagree with my assertion above, committers may > nonetheless choose to delete in 10.x *anyway* provided that the > deprecated thing is "internal" (subjectively determined). For internal > things, in my strong opinion, the deprecation was a courtesy and/or is > equivalent to a TODO comment that can be accomplished at-will. We remove > interal methods at-will all the time without a deprecation or TODO!! > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >
