[stdlib-sig] standardizing the deprecation policy (and how noisy they are)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le lundi 09 novembre 2009 à 15:43 -0800, Kevin Teague a écrit :
> Despite being such a bad  
> situation, the Plone core developers saw these warnings and did  
> nothing to fix them, they just learned to ignore the situation when  
> starting Plone - despite it being a major source of embarassment for  
> them, everyone just got used to ignoring them (until finally Hanno  
> took mercy and the led the charge to clean-up the morass).

So, the question is: would anyone have led the charge if there had been
no visible warnings, and no morass to clean up? As an insider, what is
your thought about it?