Brave new (1.0) world.

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On Tuesday 24 February 2009 13:09:08 Andy Lester wrote:

> On Feb 24, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> > I'd prefer "GONE AFTER AUGUST 2009" to "GONE BY AUGUST 2009".
> > Normally "deprecation" indicates we plan to remove something
> > after a certain date (or "not before" a certain date).

> I'd prefer GONE AFTER AUGUST 30, 2009 to make it absolutely clear.
> Heck, I'd say "GONE AFTER 23:59 GMT AUGUST 30, 2009".

Sure, that's fine.  I don't want to promise anything will disappear right to 
that second (I'm not in the business of predicting when volunteers will do 
something), but we should be very clear of the risk of using deprecated 
features until the deadline.

-- c