[tei-council] Should Roma be doing this?

[Lou Burnard]

On 06/02/13 09:51, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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> On 6 Feb 2013, at 09:42, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> May e we should start deprecating defaultVal ?
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> I am wary of using deprecation as a way of brushing things under the carpet,
> mainly because we have no real plans to have it mean anything. We have discussed
> how to show it to the reader better in documentation, but thats a bit of a figleaf.
> Unless we really put time limits on the life of features, and actually remove them
> on some date,  I don't see the value.

So because our current implementation of deprecation is suboptimal we 
shouldn't use it? In fact you propose to deprecate deprecation? Sounds 
like we're really having a bad day...