[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Removing Deprecated methods in XE 3.0+

Hi devs, I think the start of the XE 3.x cycle is a good time to remove some deprecated methods/classes. We have a deprecation strategy defined already: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#HDepreca… " Our rule is to keep @deprecated methods/classes for 2 final releases after the version where they were first added has been released as final. For example if a method is deprecated in, say XE 1.3M2 then the method will be removed in 1.6M1 or after. Of course any major new release can deprecate anything. For example a XWiki 2.0 release is allowed to break backward compatibility (obviously we need to be careful to offer a migration path for users of previous major versions). " So 2 final releases mean that deprecations introduced in 2.5.x or before can theoretically be removed for XE 3.0 final. However, IMO we shouldn't remove deprecated methods/classes that are public for scrips since this will break xwiki users. Are we ok to do that? Personally I'm fine and I'd like to add this caveat to the best practice if we agree. Thanks -Vincent