yeah, i was thinking the more likely case of where something like "teh" is in the list...
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Michael McCandless < luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > even as simple as changing default stopword list for some analyzer could > be > > an issue, if the user doesn't re-index in response to that change. > > OK, right. > > So say we forgot to include "the" in the default English stopwords > list (yes, an extreme example...). > > Under the proposed changes 1 & 2 to back-compat policy, we would add > "the" to the default stopword list, so new users get the fix, but > still keep the the-less list accessible (deprecated). We'd add an > entry in CHANGES.txt saying this happened, and then show code on how > to get back to the the-less stopword list. > > New users using that StopFilter would properly see "the" filtered out. > Users who upgraded would need to fix their code to switch back to the > deprecated the-less list. > > Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
