Administration
Deprecated Services and APIs
Community Input to this proposed policy was accepted between 22-AUG-2008 and 19-SEP-2008. After careful consideration of all community feedback, this policy was adopted on 1-OCT-2008.
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caGrid Deprecation Policy
What May be Deprecated
Deprecation is possible at any of three levels:
- API-level - all caGrid APIs (and configuration formats) are unstable and could change between point releases, unless explicitly called-out as stable in the published deprecation plan. Beginning with caGrid 1.2, all releases include a Javadoc.
- Service-level - a core caGrid service is expected to be retired or will not be backward compatible in a future release.
- Grid-level - a change to the overarching grid service specifications (e.g. final WSRF standards that are incompatible with current implementation).
Notification to Developers
A deprecation plan will be published prior to each caGrid release, beginning with 1.3. The deprecation plan will specify:
- Stable APIs
- Retired or backwards-incompatible Services
- Grid protocol changes
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