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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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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: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

On 02.05.2018 10:02, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> On 2 May 2018 at 10:59:07, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 (berrange@redhat.com=
) wrote:
>=20
>> Our deprecation policy lets us include incompatible
>> changes in *any* release.
>=20
> can you elaborate on this?
>=20
> where is this policy defined?

https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Deprecated-features

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.

 Thomas