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Berrangé wrote: > This extends the deprecation policy to indicate that versioned machine > types will be marked deprecated after 3 years, and then subject to > removal after a further 3 years has passed. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst > index 7b8aafa15b..55120e774c 100644 > --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst > +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst > @@ -11,6 +11,18 @@ releases, the feature is liable to be removed. Deprecated features may also > generate warnings on the console when QEMU starts up, or if activated via a > monitor command, however, this is not a mandatory requirement. > > +As a special exception to this general timeframe, rather than have an > +indefinite lifetime, versioned machine types are only intended to be > +supported for a period of 6 years, equivalent to 18 QEMU releases. All > +versioned machine types will be automatically marked deprecated after an > +initial 3 years (9 QEMU releases) has passed, and will then be deleted after Should there be the word "period" after "3 years" ? Otherwise it sounds a little bit weird to me - but I'm also not a native speaker, so I might be wrong. > +a further 3 year period has passed. It is recommended that a deprecated > +machine type is only used for incoming migrations and restore of saved state, > +for pre-existing VM deployments. Should we maybe add a sentence that they should ideally be updated to a newer machine type during a service window with downtime? (well, it might be also obvious, so maybe not worth to mention it) > Newly deployed VMs should exclusively use a > +non-deprecated machine type, with use of the most recent version highly > +recommended. Non-versioned machine types follow the general feature > +deprecation policy. Anyway: Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth