Hello,
Over the last ~3 years of development on TinkerPop3, the code has gone down
both good and bad paths. For the bad paths, we maintain a deprecation procedure
that we follow to ensure such dead ends are removed over time and do not remain
lingering indefinitely in the codebase. TinkerPop 3.3.0 can be seen as "The
Great Purge" in which we have aggressively tackled all the @Deprecated code in
the code base. You can see the intensity of this effort in our release notes:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/docs/src/upgrade/release-3.3.x.asciidoc#deprecation-removal
<https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/docs/src/upgrade/release-3.3.x.asciidoc#deprecation-removal>
In sum total, including both The Great Purge and the major developments in
TinkerPop 3.3.0 such as GraphSON 3.0, Gryo 3.0, and Gremlin-C#, we have closed
over 100 tickets for this upcoming release. A tidy home is a tidy mind.
As we stabilize TinkerPop3 for its remaining life, we keep only that which is
“good” and will borrow and expand upon only that which is “great” as we begin
the initial experimental & exploratory phases of the path towards TinkerPop4.
Take care,
Marko.
http://markorodriguez.com
