On 19 Nov 2011, at 18:02, Ross Gardler wrote: > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On Nov 19, 2011 5:21 PM, "Scott Wilson" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> In 0.9.1 we deprecated "services" (aka categories) and related > functionality (widget default types etc) as these are more properly the > concern of a widget store (such as the Apache Rave widget repository, or > the widget store that will be developed by a group of projects at > http://code.google.com/p/widgetstore/ ) >> >> The question I have is when should we actually *remove* the deprecated > code? >> >> Personally I think 0.9.1 is quite a solid release, QA-wise, and so anyone > who needs some sort of services support could stay on 0.9.1 until they are > ready. In which case we can remove the code now ready for 0.9.2. >> >> However, there isn't going to be a long gap before we release 0.9.2 as > the major new additions (templating system, oAuth) are already in place and > ready to test. > > Personally I don't like removing features in a point release. I'd say it > should be removed in 0.10 > > I agree that 0.9.1 is solid, perhaps a 0.9.2 out the door quickly which > officially deprecated the GUI and defines the API features and gives 100% > the W3C test results. Next target should be removal of the deprecated code > and provision of a full API and command line tool at 0.10.
That makes more sense. I've rejigged the roadmap in Jira to give us a 0.10.0 release point after 0.9.2 and put the removal of service code and adding the command line tool against 0.10.0. > > Ross > >> >> What do you think? Is anyone using the services feature or relying on it > for integration with other platforms? >> >> - S >> >> PS: I've had a quick look, and removing services will eliminate ~16 > source files and around 800 lines of code... >> >>
