Hey Hoss,
Almost everyone agreed to the backwards-compatibility changes I posted
here: JIRA-1698. (It turned out that Shai had proposed an almost
identical proposal in one of the long threads that I admittedly didn't
fully read either).
I suggested to send a note to java-user to get some feedback from the
users. Then we should have an official vote on java-dev to decide
formally if we want to change the policy according to the proposal.
I haven't sent the mail to java-user yet. But it's on my (long) list of
things to do....
Michael
On 6/24/09 5:22 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
(Please remain calm, this is just a request for clarification/summation)
As I slowly catch up on the 9000+ Lucene related emails that I
accumulated during my 2 month hiatus, I notice several rather large
threads (i think totally ~400 messages) on the subject of our back
compat policy (where it works, where it's failing us; where it hurts
users because it works as designed, where it hurts users because it
doesn't work as designed; how we could change it to be better, why we
shouldn't change it; etc...)
I won't pretend that i've read all of those messages ... i won't even
pretend that I've skimmed all those messages, but i did skim *some* of
those messages, and in some of the later threads there seemed to be a
lot of concensus about ideas that (as far as i can tell) were not just
"leave things alone".
With that in mind, i was kind of suprised to see that the neither of
the two wiki pages (that i know of) related to backwards compatibility
have been updated since *well* before all of the recent threads...
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BackwardsCompatibility?action=info
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/Java_1%2e5_Migration?action=info
My request is that someone who was involved in the previous
discussions take a stab at updating one or both of those docs to
reflect what the concensus of the community was. Other people can
then review the diff for those documentation changes and spot check
ewther they feel it reflects the concensus as they understand it. But
until the written policy has been changed, our policy (by definition)
hasn't really been changed.
In short: "Patches Welcome!"
-Hoss
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