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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 11:22:37 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing,
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To: Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net>, "=?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P._Berrang=c3=a9?=" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>

On 02.05.2018 11:03, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> On 2 May 2018 at 11:13:49, Thomas Huth (thuth@redhat.com) wrote:
>=20
>> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Deprecated-features
>=20
> Thank you, Thomas.
>=20
>> It took quite a while to get a consensus on that policy, so I don't
>> think that we want to sacrifice that for semver.
>=20
> ok, this might be a point.
>=20
> thinking twice, I'm not sure it is a real sacrifice; I think that the
> problem here is the strict definition:
>=20
> "The feature will remain functional for 2 releases prior to actual remo=
val."
>=20
> if it were:
>=20
> "The feature will remain functional for _at least_ 2 releases prior to
> actual removal.=C2=A0"
>=20
> or even better:
>=20
> "The feature will remain functional for _at least_ 2 _major_ releases
> prior to actual removal. "

Sorry, but this really does not match with what we discussed last year
(see the thread at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg01592.html for
example), so I doubt that we can get a consensus on this for QEMU.

 Thomas