[asterisk-dev] Module Deprecation, Default Not Building, and Removal

[Sean Bright]

On 10/1/2020 7:56 AM, Joshua C. Colp wrote:
> Around this time each year a discussion always spurs (be it on IRC or 
> at AstriDevCon) about deprecating modules, and removing them. I always 
> find myself asking "what is our real process for doing this?" in my 
> head and end up trying to piece it together based on some information 
> here and there on the wiki plus past experience. I'd like to better 
> document this and put something more concrete into place. To that end 
> I'd like to propose the following:

Thanks for putting these thoughts on paper.

No matter what is ultimately decided, I would like to propose that we 
have some kind of scheduled x-number-of-months-before-release discussion 
where we can propose that a module be deprecated. It's good to have 
process around it, but I feel like we always end up discussing it _just 
after_ a new major version is released and it is too late to do anything 
about.

Kind regards,
Sean