[Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about deprecation of old interfaces and features

[Thomas Huth]

The list of deprecated interfaces/features in the wiki should be pretty
complete now, so it is now time to draw some more public attention to our
plans of removing certain interfaces/features in future releases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
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+layout: post
+title:  "Deprecation of old parameters and features"
+date:   2017-07-25 9:00:00 +0200
+author: Thomas Huth
+categories: [features, 'web site']
+---
+QEMU has a lot of interfaces (like command line options or HMP commands) and
+old features (like certain devices) which are considered as deprecated
+since other more generic or better interfaces/features have been established
+instead. While the QEMU developers are generally trying to keep each QEMU
+release compatible with the previous ones, the old legacy sometimes gets into
+the way when developing new code and/or causes quite some burden of maintaining
+it.
+
+Thus we are currently considering to get rid of some of the old interfaces
+and features in a future release and have started to collect a list of such
+old items in our Wiki on a
+[page about removing legacy 
parts](http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval).
+If you are running QEMU directly, please have a look at this page to see
+whether you are still using one of these old interfaces or features, so you
+can adapt your setup to use the new interfaces or features instead. Or if
+you rather think that one of the legacy interfaces/features should *not* be
+removed from QEMU at all, please speak up on the
+[qemu-devel mailing list](http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/MailingLists)
+to explain why the interface or feature is still required.
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