On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 00:37, Michael Busch<busch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/10/09 1:30 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> >>> >>> I think your 2.5 proposal has drawbacks: if we release 2.5 now to test >>> the new major features in the field, then do you want to stop adding new >>> features to trunk until we release 2.9 to not have the same situation then >>> again? How long should this testing in the field take? >> >> I don't know. How long does any release cycle last in Lucene? >> > > But we'll always have the same problem, no? We need to find a solution that > allows us to keep adding features; dedicated "deprecation" releases are not > good. Parallel branches. The only way of simultaneously satisfying several conflicting needs in software development.
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