On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Michael McCandless
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'd think we could cut a 4.0 alpha today, after branching.
>

How? the packaging for modules is totally hosed for example: how would
we even package such a thing?

Also when we push out alpha/beta/etc shouldn't we at the minimum say
'apis might change but this is the index format' ? Otherwise how is it
different than a nightly build to end-users?

These are reasons why we must branch: because at any time we should be
able to add new packages (like LUCENE-3305) that will 'destabilize'
packaging (which is important to get right here), or we might change
the index format (like LUCENE-3687) which I think we might not
necessarily want to do.

(I listed two issues that I feel are very close to being committed
right now as examples)

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