From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it?
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:46:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175f80c-328b-5f75-5d4b-3d5f11f61726@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0wa1bf8.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On 01/10/2020 12.35, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> We deprecated "?" more than eight years ago. We didn't have a
> deprecation process back then, but we did purge "?" from the
> documentation and from help texts. Can we finally drop it?
It's not mentioned in docs/system/deprecated.rst yet, so it is not
officially deprecated yet. Provide a patch to add it to the list there,
then you can remove it after two releases.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 10:35 Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it? Markus Armbruster
2020-10-01 10:46 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2020-10-01 11:20 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-01 15:23 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-10-01 15:45 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-10-01 13:06 ` Eric Blake
2020-10-01 13:17 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-10-01 15:04 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-01 14:02 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-02 10:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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