[tei-council] respond by 1 May: summary of and path forward for "no longer recommended" and "deprecated" practices

[Kevin Hawkins]

Below ...

On 4/19/2013 12:06 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> This bit, regarding "no longer recommended", confused me a little:
>
> "We will not add the "no longer recommended" practice to P6-dev."
>
> Does that mean:
>
>    - The feature which we no longer recommend will be removed from P6.
>
>    - The disrecommendation will be removed from P6.
>
>    - The feature will not be included in the P6-dev page.

I meant the third of these.  I have elaborated the sentence in the 
document.  As I understood our discussion, the decision to make 
something "no longer recommended" does not entail that it will 
definitely be removed in P6; therefore, we do not need to add this to 
the P6-dev page.

> Re the To Do #1:
>
> I think the Guidelines themselves should contain an
> automatically-generated page or chapter listing deprecated items along
> with their validUntil dates. The Guidelines are most people's primary
> source of information; we can't assume they read the TEI-L list, read
> the release notes or go to the wiki.

Noted in the wiki!