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
Actual Release of Deprecation
- Remove in release
- Code in Application
- Remove DB tables
- Remove from properties file
- Update documentation
- Upgrade Notes
- Release Notes