On 8/7/16 14:20, Warner Losh wrote: > >> On Aug 7, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Andrey Chernov <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> OTOH, FreeBSD has a documented deprecation process that says things will >>> continue working for a major release after being formally deprecated. >> >> FreeBSD 11 is not released yet (betas are not counted), stable-10 too, >> so it is right time to deprecate for them. > > Nice try, but feature freeze was months ago. Have you got buy in from the > security officer and the release engineer?
Well, despite the fact that I have to admit that I get locked out from my own storage box too, however (even without wearing any hat) I am for the change and would blame myself for being lazy in adopting the change when the upstream have announced it earlier about a year ago. Compatibility with legacy software/hardware, sure, but if we don't stop at some point, it would be like SSL 2.0 which people have pointed out several flaws in 1995 and take 16 years to get deprecated and still bite people in 2014. We should do something like what OpenSSH have done by creating a page describing the motivation, the impact, the temporary but discouraged workaround, etc., and mention it in the release notes to prevent people from being bite. Cheers,
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