[Python-Dev] Process to remove a Python feature

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 3 May 2018 at 12:01 Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2018-05-02 14:24 GMT-03:00 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
>
> >> Maybe we should create a tool to list features scheduled for removal,
> >> and open a discussion to check each removal?
> >
> > I don't know if a tool is necessary. We could have a meta issue or text
> file
> > somewhere to track what's to be removed in a certain version.
>
> Maybe a specific PEP that list all removals that happened, those that
> will happen next version, and next ones after that?
>

I don't know if we need a history section as the What's New docs cover
that. But having a PEP or some other file/doc that acts like a future
What's New but for removals seems like a reasonable idea.

-Brett


>
> IOW, a single point where one can see which features/details will fly
> away and when.
>
> Probably it's a good idea to see everything at once and evaluate if
> "we're removing too many things at once", and have a better
> deprecation/removal cadence.
>
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