When deprecating something in Mifos, the following steps should be followed generally:
Before Release / Previous Release
- Send email to mifos-user list with description of what is being deprecated
- Update documentation
- FS
- Hide in Mifos
- If a feature, hide just in UI
- If a config property, add comment to properties file, and update config guide documentation
- Plan how customer will migrate to new option
- Define user migration path to new functionality
- If trapdoor setting is being deprecated will user get logging or other notification to remove custom property that's in use?
- Scrub jira for any related issues, update with decision to deprecate.
Actual Release of Deprecation
- Remove in release
- Code in Application
- Remove DB tables
- Remove from default properties file
- Update documentation
- Upgrade Notes
- Release Notes