Hey Hoss, > > : regular trunk structure at some point down the road. What's the SOLR > : versioning scheme by the way? Is it: > > that's part of the problem (and the reason why comments about the "back > compat" commitments for Solr have come up in this thread) ... Solr is a > young enough project that we've never made any "formal" specification of > what it means to rev a major version, or for that matter if/when we might > have a point release (ie: 1.4.1) ... and we've never really specified what > it means for Solr to be backwards compatible ... we've done a pretty good > job of making config syntax, schema declarations, and URL params backwards > compatible, and whenever feasible we've tried to keep "plugin" APIs back > compatible -- but we have (knowingly) broken them on occasion with the > understanding that our first priority is "user level" back compatibility > and performance, and that plugin writers are probably willing to put up > with needing to make small code changes to upgrade if it means good > performance wins.
Fair enough. > that said: i (and i'm guressing several other people) would fight > pretty hard against making major internal API chandes that would require > plugin developers to rewrite serious chunks of code w/o doing a major > version bump. You can add me to that list :) > > The point being: it's all been very informat up to now -- and that's > probably for the best. "policies" should evolve over time based on real > world situations that come up, and we're still in the process of doing > that. Agreed, but now that the elephant has been identified in the room, let's come up with a policy then. What are your thoughts on my proposal (specified earlier in this thread)? Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
