Hi Otto, I would not like to start Semver exactly now ... and it doesn't help if we start bumping major versions with every release.
In the end this wouldn't really change anything. If we bump the major version number it's still incompatible with the old one and we don't know if anyone even cared about the incompatibility. And if we bump the major version all the time people could be annoyed of us breaking things all the time ;-) Chris Am 20.11.20, 15:32 schrieb "Otto Fowler" <[email protected]>: or, we can follow versioning rules and have the ‘new kafka sink’ trigger a proper release that allows breaking backwards compatibility From: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Reply: [email protected] <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Date: November 20, 2020 at 06:08:51 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: [DISCUSS] How about changing the way we act on "backward compatability"? Hi all, in a discussion with Ben on the Kafka Connect adapter. He was trying to stay compatible with the past in order to not break anything with existing installations. As of know I don’t know of a single usage of it anywhere. The thing is: we developed a lot of stuff and as of now we don’t really know who is actually using what. And in the past I have seen multiple times that stuff I was thought to be used, actually couldn’t have and I was wasting my energy in keeping things compatible while it would have been better to change them. So how about we call out loud on all channels that we promise to pay attention to parts we know are being used. And the only way we can know about this, is if the companies actually tell us. I’d even call it out as “We are working hard on reaching the version 1.0.0 and for this we might want to clean up and change a few things”. This way we can assure we evolve the different parts as freely as possible. If someone complains that we broke something they were using, we’ve got an excuse and perhaps we’ll get more official statements about usage this way? What do you think? Chris
