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Planned features will pass through the following states:
Open
- Deprecation announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- Deprecated features will continue to be supported after the deprecation announcement, for the lifetime of the current release.
Clarify
- A feature has been described and assigned
- The next step will be to decide, whether the feature is a Known Issue or it has to be Clarified.
Clarify
- Clarify means, the feature has to be discussed before a further decision is taken
- End of support announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- With the following release a deprecated feature becomes an unsupported feature, i.e. should problems occur then they will not be fixed.
- The functionality is still usable.
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