doc: edit deprecation identifier info in Collaborator Guide

Edit the deprecation identifier material in the Collaborator Guide for
simplicity and clarity.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26372
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anto Aravinth <anto.aravinth.cse@gmail.com>
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Rich Trott 2019-02-28 22:16:24 -08:00
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@ -347,13 +347,11 @@ Runtime Deprecations and End-of-life APIs (internal or public) are breaking
changes (`semver-major`). The TSC may make exceptions, deciding that one of
these deprecations is not a breaking change.
All Documentation-Only and Runtime deprecations will be assigned a unique
identifier that can be used to persistently refer to the deprecation in
documentation, emitted process warnings, or errors thrown. Documentation for
these identifiers will be included in the Node.js API documentation and will
be immutable once assigned. Even if End-of-Life code is removed from Node.js,
the documentation for the assigned deprecation identifier must remain in the
Node.js API documentation.
All deprecations receive a unique and immutable identifier. Documentation,
warnings, and errors use the identifier when referring to the deprecation. The
documentation for the assigned deprecation identifier must always remain in the
API documentation. This is true even if the deprecation is no longer in use (for
example, due to removal of an End-of-Life deprecated API).
<a id="deprecation-cycle"></a>
A _Deprecation cycle_ is a major release during which an API has been in one of