Re: Let's get rid of deprecation warnings

[Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 at 01:59 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto <georges stavracas gmail com> wrote:

Greetings,

By the time this mail is being written, compiling GNOME Settings produces no less than 198 deprecation warnings. As the central hub of settings of GNOME, this situation is not ideal.

If you are a maintainer of a panel and have some spare time, please try and update your panel. If you can't do that, please let us know.

Removing deprecation warnings is also a good way to get people interested in contributing to Settings bootstraped.

Don't hesitate to share your thoughts on this topic.

I think this is an important issue, thanks for raising in Georges!

In my experience I've found projects with a lot of warnings:

- are easy to introduce bugs into because it's not clear when new warnings appear.

- tend to grow a culture of not keeping the code in good shape.

- are unappealing for contributions (in the case of Settings that is true for me - it's one of the less appealing projects to hack on).