From eb2df7f62203c3b82148ca01c5a6172ed3df9234 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hynek Schlawack Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 12:11:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add announcement about `import attrs` --- changelog.d/487.deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changelog.d/487.deprecation.rst diff --git a/changelog.d/487.deprecation.rst b/changelog.d/487.deprecation.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..32b42958 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/487.deprecation.rst @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The long-awaited, much-talked-about, little-delivered ``import attrs`` is finally upon us! + +Since the NG APIs have now been proclaimed stable, the **next** release of ``attrs`` will allow you to actually ``import attrs``. +We're taking this opportunity to replace some defaults in our APIs that made sense in 2015, but don't in 2021. + +So please, if you have any pet peeves about defaults in ``attrs``'s APIs, *now* is the time to air your grievances in #487! +We're not gonna get such a chance for a second time, without breaking our backward-compatibility guarantees, or long deprecation cycles. +Therefore, speak now or forever hold you peace!