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

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Wednesday 26 March 2014 20:47:23 John Layt wrote:
> On 26 March 2014 20:08, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tuesday 25 March 2014 16:41:12 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> >> Just imagine what header would you like to see on an
> >> announcement/article:
> >> * Frameworks 5 To Not Include Deprecated Technologies
> >> * KDE Porting Aids To Have Three Releases
> >> * Introducing KDE Porting Aids And Changes to Frameworks 5
> >> 
> >> I'm guessing the first, but - just checking.
> > 
> > The first sounds negative to me, it'd sound like we completely drop them
> > leaving people with no transition plan. Probably not the image we want to
> > give...
> > 
> > I think the third one although being more descriptive is the one with the
> > least chances of being misrepresented.
> 
> I'd say not to have this as a separate announcement on its own, it's
> not that significant in itself.  Instead, I'd just make it a section
> of the next Frameworks release announcement (and future ones too)
> saying something like:
> 
> "KF5 Porting Aids.  The Frameworks team have futher refined the
> Framework classification model and have identified a new group called
> the KF5 Porting Aids.  These are Frameworks containing kdelibs4
> modules and api that are being deprecated in KF5 and are provided only
> to assist applications in porting across to KF5.  As such these
> Frameworks will only have a limited support period, currently planned
> to be three release cycles.  Applications are strongly encouraged to
> port away from these Frameworks during this support period to prevent
> dependency on obsolete and unsupported code.  Once support is ended,
> some unofficial development may continue on some modules, but they
> will not be part of the officially supported Frameworks release.  The
> Frameworks belonging to this group are: blah blah blah. "


Thanks, John, I used that as a base for the Beta 1 announcement. David, Kevin, 
others - what else should be in that announcement? What has changed, is new, 
disappeared, improved?

/J
> John.