Open kdmccormick opened 3 weeks ago
@robrap @feanil That is my quick writeup on what we're doing, feel free to edit it or add your own notes.
Thanks @kdmccormick. This is great. We also mentioned that we plan to expose some of the dates as metadata on the DEPR board so organizations can easily see by when they need to handle the different states.
Happy to see this evolving, I will silently keep tabs and happy to help with the OEP authoring/reviewing if this experiment succeeds.
I'd love to see a quick sentence or two in the description about (a) what problem this is trying to solve, and (b) what "success" of the experiment is.
Maintenance WG is trying out a new way of using the DEPR process. We'll takes notes here. If it goes well, then we will update the DEPR OEP accordingly. The problem we're trying to solve that we don't want to increase the number of channels that an operator has to follow to find out about removal, breaking changes or operational impact of changes. We'll consider this experiment a success if we can manage the next few upcoming maintenance items with breaking changes without significantly having to contort the DEPR process to make this work.
Here's the idea: