Ralph Goers wrote: 
> >No :) our policy says that no incompatible changes should 
> occur between 
> >maintenance releases. They might happen between minor 
> version changes.
> >Now of course these rules are not fixed which means we can 
> decide on a 
> >case by case basis.
> >
> >Carsten
> >  
> >
> So you are saying this change cannot go in the 2.1.x branch 
> at all, but could go against 2.2?
> 
Again no :) (Sorry today I like giving negative answers...)
I was not talking about this case explicitly, I just gave the general
answer for handling incompatible changes. However, it's up to us
(the community) if we bend the rule in special cases. For example
if a bug introduces a wrong behaviour and we fix the bug we 
have an incompatible change, but in this case it's mostly ok to
apply the fix. If a change will not infect anyone, it might be ok
as well and so on. - again I'm not speaking of this special case.

> BTW - was this ever published on the website?  I guess I'm 
> having a hard time trying to remember what the agreement actually was.
> 
http://cocoon.apache.org/versioning.html

Carsten

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