On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Christopher Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If those are supposed to make it into 0.9.0, there's no way we can get the >> release out by the end of this week (which is pretty much today or >> tomorrow). Changes of this scale require review and testing, and ideally >> documentation. Just saying :) >> >> Postpone by about 2 weeks, depending on when those changes land in trunk? >> > > I'd say postpone. Adam's replication patches don't change the API, so > they aren't an issue for client libraries, but both moving the _view > endpoint to within the design doc path, and Damien's changes to the > behavior of bulk_docs, will effect client libraries. > > If we can avoid making a release with APIs that are already > deprecated, I think it's worth the wait. Alternatively, we could wait > on Damien's branch (as it still requires some testing, and changes > CouchDB in a more fundamental way, but one that has less impact on > client libraries) but I'd be against doing a release without the > design doc resources patch. We've never had a release with show/list, > so doing one with a deprecated API places an unnecessary burden on > client and application developers, who will probably have to support > 0.9.0 for a while. >
That said, the design doc resources patch (COUCHDB-280) is solid and tested and ready for trunk. I'm ready to commit it once I'm sure there aren't any -1's out there. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
