[kde-promo] Releasing Deprecated modules and Tier 4 Definition

[John Layt]

On 17 March 2014 20:14, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
> I like the limit on kde4support, we only have to look to Qt3Support to
> know that if the aids are left in place people will avoid porting away
> from them until they absolutely have to.  I'm not sure we need to call
> it a "product" though, perhaps just saying a special category of
> Frameworks providing transitional support for a limited period of time
> for apps migrating from kdelibs4 to KF5 would be enough.  Hey, how
> about KDE Transitional Frameworks? :-)
>
> The important part is to have the clear definitions of what things
> mean and what our plans are.  We made a horrible mistake in Qt5 of
> labelling things like QWidgets as "Done" as people just didn't
> understand what we meant and assumed the worst, and we all know the PR
> disaster that was.

Oh, which is not to say that being deprecated / transitional / being
given an EoL/EoS date would prevent someone from deciding to keep them
alive outside Frameworks, or even bring them back in the distant
future, just that is the current status.  That would need good
communication too.

John.