Twitter users are up in arms because of the decision to retire production systems with a 2 months notice - https://twitter.com/thomashermine/status/976398123215065088
People. People are up in arms.
Anyway, yeah, that's insane. Even Google, who constantly shuts stuff down, usually does so with way more heads up. For comparison, Google Reader, a completely free service, shut down with 3.5 months advance notice. Google Wave got almost 6 months notice.
It still hurts.
I have only user rss via gwene over nntp, if that went away, i'd miss it bunches.
7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if it intends to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to the Services specified at the URL in the next sentence. Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those Services versions and features identified at https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):
(i) required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or
(ii) doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.
The above policy is the "Deprecation Policy."
Disclaimer I work for Google in Cloud.
Migrating off docker cloud will be a pain, but the service was already a pain to use, so maybe it's about time anyways.
But imagine being given 2 months to migrate off docker hub for image storage. Panic would ensue :)
edit: typos
The whole point of containers is that they are ephemeral and can be booted up quickly anywhere because you statically link the whole fucking OS?