Fw: [proposal] Jakarta Deprecation Policy

[Remy Maucherat <re...@apache.org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Stevens" <jo...@latchkey.com>
To: <ge...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: [proposal] Jakarta Deprecation Policy


> Well, there haven't been many flame wars around here recently, so let me
> start one. I seem to be good at that. :-)
>
> What I propose is that we take this document (or one similar to it) and
> migrate it up to the overall Jakarta Project instead of just being a
Turbine
> policy and get all the projects to "sign" their name on it.
>
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/deprecation.html>
>
> I think it would go a long way towards raising awareness of the need to
> deprecate things (thanks to Sam starting this with Gump) as well as make
the
> corporate types feel more comfortable with regards to depending on "that
> Open Source Software stuff"...
>
> Comments?
>
> -jon

I think we should agree to follow those guidelines. This topic is currently
under discussion on the general mailing list, and the final document will be
moved to the main Jakarta site.

Remy