On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:14 PM Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > > > To me it is quite clear that once we released 6.0, there is technically no > possibility to release a brand new 5.6 Feature-Release! The main reason: > 6.0 (if released before 5.6) will not be able to read indexes of 5.6 > (because it does not know about the format at the time of its release). So > the only thing we can do is release 5.5.1, 5.5.2,… where new index/codecs > are not allowed. And for that we already have a branch! Go ahead and commit > bugfixes there! > That makes no sense. There are only a handful of people committing index format changes. It's beyond simple for those people to understand once the next major version is released, don't put any more index format changes into the previous line. That is a very weak technical argument. Committers already have to remember how to deal with back compat and what changes can happen when. This is no different. - Mark -- - Mark about.me/markrmiller
