[tei-council] Do the deprecation with me

[Rebecca Welzenbach]

Everybody's using the attribute key now
(come on council, do the deprecation)
We think @ref is better, but we'll let it be now
(come on council, do the deprecation)

We can't make every single project change its keys
We'll recommend against it in the spec if you please
In cases like these, deprecation's not the answer for me….

You gotta think of Birnbaum….
What breaks?
How bad?
Is it worth making everyone mad?

To really deprecate something we must set a date now
(come on council, do the deprecation)
We'll wait two years before we break the current state now
(come on council, do the deprecation)

We'll announce it on the list and on a wiki page
This should give everyone a chance to change their ways
Come on, come on do the deprecation with me....

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