Hi Denis, On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 01:48:33AM +0200, denis wrote:
We have been in this situation many times in the past where an attribute has been deprecated or its value has been suspect for some reason.
What we did in the past was to make the suspect/deprecated attribute into a "remarks:" attribute.
Sometimes this approach was used, but certainly not always.
This addresses both concerns raised in response to your discussion in this case. The old value is still there but it is clear it is not a reliable description. Those who want to keep that value can simply remove the "remarks:" tag. Those who don't want it can delete the attribute. After maybe 6 months you can do a final cleanup and remove any old value that has been left as a "remarks:".
Had the attribute been an actual "user-owned" attribute, the "remarks:" approach might have made more sense, but this is not the case. Thanks for chiming in, Job ps. It still annoys me somewhat that the "remarks: For information on "status:"" remarks show up everywhere, years later. :)