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Architecture Council/Meetings/API Deprecation 20080119
Meeting Title: | AC Call on API Deprecation |
Date & Time: | Monday January 19, 2009 at 1600 UTC / 0800 SFO / 1100 Ottawa / 1700 Berlin HTML | iCal |
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Attendees
- Doodle Poll for scheduling
Company | Eclipse Project | Attendees |
Eclipse Foundation | Technology, Tools | Bjorn Freeman-Benson |
IBM | Eclipse Project | John Arthorne, Boris Bokowski, Philippe Mulet |
Macro Modeling | Modeling | Ed Merks |
Obeo | Modeling | Cédric Brun |
OC Systems | TPTP | Oliver Cole |
STAR | WTP | Dave Carver |
Wind River | DSDP | Martin Oberhuber, Michael Scharf |
EclipseSource | PDE | Chris Aniszczyk |
Missing: BIRT, DTP, RT, STP, consumer rep, strategic reps
Notes
- See Architecture Council/Minutes January 15 2009#New Topics for previous discussions
- Part of the larger story on Eclipse Adoption.
- Goal is to
- Define the questions that we'd like to get answered
- come up with enough agreement to create initial rules / guidelines for review
Reasoning
- Eclipse APIs become ever more complicated and duplicated, making it harder and harder to understand.
- For e4 at least, we should make it simpler to code against Eclipse. We should get rid of unnecessary burden to make ourselves ready for the future.
- We need to talk about Deprecation policies NOW to incorporate them into Galileo (and thus be able to get rid of deprecated stuff sooner).
- Consider other technologies:
- Deprecation in Java
- Evolution of glibc
Questions
- Should the deprecation rules be the same for all projects, or different from project to project?
- By what channels can the Community be informed about deprecating API?
- How long does deprecated API need to stay around? Does it depend from case to case?