[Labs-l] Reimplementing account expiries

[Tim Landscheidt]

Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because the labs environment is always changing.  Moving
> xTools from Precise to Trusty will break the tools.
> Thankfully the rewrite coming out soon, will fix that, but
> just saying.

> […]

But the deprecation of Precise does not cause a tool to
"suddenly break down", but simply be switched off, with
about seven months of warning.  The next time this will hap-
pen is April 2019.  So IMHO it is unnecessary to create an
atmosphere where tool developers must assume that their ap-
plications need constant attention.  Breaking changes to the
Tools environment are and should be rare as they come at the
price of hundreds or thousands of man-hours.

Tim