On 22/11/2012, at 1:15 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 22/11/2012, at 11:30 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Coast is clear.
>>> 
>>> I have two proposals to offer:
>>> 
>>> 1) Set version to 3.0, remove parameter Q support, thus reducing the 
>>> complexity.
>>> 
>>> 2) Set version to 3.0, remove all RSS support, thus requiring JIRA 4.2.
>>> 
>>> In either case, anyone who wants to use an older JIRA can use 2.8.
>> 
>> Atlassian doesn't support anything < 4.2 
>> (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Support/Atlassian+Support+End+of+Life+Policy),
>>  and in practice I think they're even more aggressive. It's probably not a 
>> problem moving up to it if it is justified.
>> 
>> That said, the REST API doesn't need to be enabled, so some people may want 
>> RSS anyway - I guess it depends whether that part is broken or causing extra 
>> work.
> 
> That would point toward option 1. We get rid of the small bag of
> trouble from the pre-4 query URL syntax. Note that 5.1.x users with
> REST disabled are just out of luck no matter what.

Sorry, I misunderstood what the remote API option did - I received a note from 
Atlassian pointing out that the REST API can not be disabled, so relying on 
that if you're going to require 4.2 is safe.

- Brett

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