On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 11:47 AM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote:
> This also incentivises intentionally not introducing support for that api > in older mainlines. We KISS, if the user wants that ecosystem benefit they > need to upgrade to at least mainline X. > > Once older mainlines have it then we have this problem. An alternative to > the risk of having to always update all the mainlines, is to let the > ecosystem branch to provide support for the different mainlines as/when > needed. Both are painful. > In order to support upgrades where clusters may be running the current major - 1 version, we need to support two versions of Cassandra in the Analytics library or Sidecar (due to rolling upgrades). So it makes sense to backport to the current major and the prior major release.
