On 03/04/09 07:49, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> +1.
>>
>> How will notification to users about this change be done? Via standard
>> EOF process?
>>
>
> That was my intent: entries in the S10 update release notes and additions
> to their man pages. I was not planning on modifying their code with
> "Stop using me!" messages as some EOF's optionally choose to do as well.
>
>
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
It would also be nice if customers reading the "usual documentation"
(customers reading manuals? nah....) would discover this as well. I'm
not sure apropos will help them locate Xorg -configure..... Maybe just
a stub man page for xorgcfg that says "This program has been removed,
use Xorg -configure instead" or somesuch? (I know this isn't a normal
part of the EOF process, I'm just contemplating what might be helpful to
our users.)
(Our "normal" EOF process is a bit different these days... used to be
you'd get notification of pending removal in a minor release at release
FCS -- e.g. if you're going to remove something in S10 it was notified
in S9 FCS. But now don't have a clear release progression from S10 to
anything else, and we have notifications happening in updates that
customers are much more likely to skip than they were the major^Wminor
releases of the past...)
-- Garrett
