[tei-council] Do the deprecation with me

[Syd Bauman]

Wow! Becky! That's *great* ... I *love* it! I laughed out loud. When
I read it I had Carole King's cover of it going through my head, not
the origina Little Eva version, but no matter. (It's a bit weird to
say that, because (according to Wikipedia) Carole King and her
husband Gerry Goffin wrote the song, but they wrote it for their baby
sitter, Little Eva. King herself didn't start singing it publicly
until the 1970s, I don't think.)

Anyway, as promised, for the ABBA fans (or tolerators) among you:
http://bauman.zapto.org/~syd/name-of-the-space.html


> 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....
> 
> http://youtu.be/C5OoQadZTPk