Not the norm is an understatement reading that issue :) - Mark
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:04 PM Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > Here's a similar question that came up during the 5.0 release. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5944?focusedCommentId=14138919&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14138919 > > The reply to this was convincing back then as 5.0 was released for > different reasons, and in different circumstances. It certainly wasn't the > norm. > > Unless I'm missing something here, I don't see a reason to not keep 5x and > even potentially release 5.6 at some point as long as some one has a reason > and the time to work on a 5.6 release. > > Also, as Uwe said, it might be wasted effort committing to the 5x branch > but that wouldn't hurt us. > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Yonik Seeley <ysee...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Michael McCandless >> <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: >> > I was simply going by what we did when we released 5.0, which was to >> > remove the 4.x branch (or rename it to 4.10.x maybe, but the net >> > effect is the same). I thought this was the practice for a major >> > release. >> >> That was a one-off that caught a lot of people by surprise. It had >> not been done on previous major releases. >> There was already even a lot of work toward 4.11 when the deletion >> happened IIRC. >> >> -Yonik >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Anshum Gupta > -- - Mark about.me/markrmiller
