Merge pull request #27874 from rallytime/deprecation-docs

Add mention of Periodic Table naming scheme to deprecation docs
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Mike Place 2015-10-13 08:51:45 -06:00
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@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ In order to give users enough time to migrate from the old code behavior to the
new behavior, the deprecation time frame should be carefully determined based
on the significance and complexity of the changes required by the user.
Salt feature releases are based on the Periodic Table. Any new features going
into the develop branch will be named after the next element in the Periodic
Table. For example, Beryllium was the feature release name of the develop branch
before the 2015.8 branch was tagged. At that point in time, any new features going
into the develop branch after 2015.8 was branched were part of the Boron feature
release.
A deprecation warning should be in place for at least two major releases before
the deprecated code and its accompanying deprecation warning are removed. More
time should be given for more complex changes. For example, if the current