Upcoming changes to web-features

[ddbeck]

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[ddbeck]

This month, we're expecting to ship a breaking release (v3.0.0). We're planning to make the following breaking changes:

• Changes to the schema to handle redirecting from one ID to one other ID (a feature move) and from one ID to many IDs (a feature split). Starting with v3.0.0, if you look up a feature by ID, then you might not get regular feature data. Use the new kind property to check whether a given ID is a redirect to one or more other features.
• Simplifications to the types in the existing schema. Previously, some fields could be a string or an array of strings. Starting with v3.0.0 only arrays of strings are allowed.
• Removing some features that should not have been created or were minted prematurely. These will be named in the release notes. There are no longer any planned feature removals.

For more information, see #3269.