From 22cbf91618698b0023b67baec82c62e28c76a863 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastiaan van Stijn Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:43:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update deprecation policy to 1 stable release The deprecation policy was written when we had monthly releases (edge+stable), and stable releases were released every 3 months. The release cadence has changed to be longer than 3 months for stable releases, so adjusting the policy accordingly. Note that the policy continues to be "at least x releases", so even though we _can_ remove a feature after one release, it does not mean we _must_ remove it: announcing deprecations early helps users migrate away from features we do not intent to support in future. Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn (cherry picked from commit 94f513e48e8d85eb24f67f1fe1a2dda0868d131b) Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn --- docs/deprecated.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/deprecated.md b/docs/deprecated.md index 6fd3979c3a..3b367dc414 100644 --- a/docs/deprecated.md +++ b/docs/deprecated.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ about end of support for Linux distributions, refer to the As changes are made to Docker there may be times when existing features need to be removed or replaced with newer features. Before an existing feature is removed it is labeled as "deprecated" within the documentation and remains in Docker for -at least 3 stable releases unless specified explicitly otherwise. After that time +at least one stable release unless specified explicitly otherwise. After that time it may be removed. Users are expected to take note of the list of deprecated features each release