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0 pointsignoramous5y ago0 comments

> Except this isn’t so much deprecation as removal. Deprecation says “we don’t recommend this any more, and it’ll probably be removed in the future”.

At AWS, I was "put on a pedestal" for stating (in an internal forum) that X was deprecated (I meant it in a sense it was "not recommended anymore" and wasn't updated at all)... The management thought it sent the wrong message (that is, deprecation == removal).

People often associate wrong meaning to deprecation (ironic in my case given Amazon is a Java shop).

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efdee5y ago

Super off-topic, for which I apologize, but being put on a pedestal means being admired. Probably the opposite of what you meant.

jefftk5y ago

I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away. If instead, X is in maintenance mode but with no plans to drop support, to me that is not deprecated?

It sounds like perhaps X was in the earlier state of not being recommended for new projects?

ignoramousOP5y ago

X is a public AWS service.

> I would interpret an internal deprecation notice as saying that consumers of X should start planning to migrate away.

Yes, everyone (internally but privately) was told to not touch it with a ten-foot and migrate away. Mentioning that it was "deprecated" apparently took it a step too far (even if internally but not privately).

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