Sounds good to me, to me there's a missing when/why description though: Which criterias do we use for when deprecating is warranted? - # of callers in image required to deprecate planned for removal (0?) - # of callers / age when considering renaming for clarity (low number of callers and/or age < X years?) - new/better API available (always, as long as new place documented?) As for the how, since we do have an integration process, would it not also be desirable with some sort of integration lint tool working on slices? For deprecations, it could do things like: - Checking for method removals without corresponding method additions in a slice aimed at recategorization (happened quite a few times...) - Deprecations rather than removals of non-private methods Cheers, Henry Den 01.01.2011 12:35, skrev Stéphane Ducasse:
I took 5 min and wrote down that http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/DeprecationProcess
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