This is still in progress, but my deprecation poli...
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flat-zoo-31952
09/18/2022, 9:50 PMThis is still in progress, but my deprecation policy work has scope-crept in a general API stability statement that tries to analyze Pants' API stability from the POV of multiple user personas. This is still WIP but feel free to look. I'll also share a bit tomorrow in the team meeting. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PQsPRh43g4_pcqnTPhDWGSZha9x_0IPzEkHCw_MAE60/edit?usp=sharing
flat-zoo-31952
09/18/2022, 9:54 PMThe main thing I've come up with is that...well I can't find a user type that breaking changes don't hurt. Especially if we can come up with a way to steer people towards preferred, newer APIs while retaining older ones as aliases and opt-in backends.
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bitter-ability-32190
09/18/2022, 10:19 PMAnother thing to consider here, and I was thinking about bringing it up but I'll be at Dr, if we could decouple engine releases from plugin releases, that allows for longer/shorter cycles and more stomachable code duplications (to support "old" paths)
bitter-ability-32190
09/18/2022, 10:22 PMAlthough this could be part of the "solution" 🤔
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flat-zoo-31952
09/18/2022, 11:23 PMThat sounds like it could be fruitful, but I'm probably not the best to judeg. I'm trying to stay focused on a problem analysis here. I don't have the depth of experience with the Pants codebase to suggest implementation details. Right now I'm doing my best to wear a combination of product manager and UX hats rather than a dev hat 🤠😆
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bitter-ability-32190
09/18/2022, 11:42 PMOh yeah. I'm a shark-jumper 😛