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note on experimental
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TomAugspurger committed Sep 12, 2019
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion doc/source/development/policies.rst
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Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ A pandas release number is made up of ``MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH``.

API breaking changes should only occur in **major** releases. Theses changes will be documented,
with clear guidance on what is changing, why it's changing, and how to migrate existing code to the
new beahvior.
new behavior.

Whenever possible, a deprecation path will be provided rather than an outright breaking change.

Expand All @@ -39,5 +39,7 @@ Deprecations will only be enforced in **major** releases.
invite you to participate in development discussion on the issue
tracker or mailing list.

These policies do not apply to features marked as **experimental** in the documentation.
Pandas may change the behavior of experimental features at any time.

.. _SemVer: https://semver.org