On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > * There is no back compat across major releases (index nor APIs), > but full back compat within branches. > > This would match how many other projects work (KS/Lucy, as Marvin > describes above; Apache Tomcat; Hibernate; log4J; FreeBSD; etc.).
Sort of... except many of these projects listed above care a lot about back compat, even between major releases. So while we could always break back compat, we shouldn't do so unless it's necessary. It's not an all-or-nothing scenario though... requiring re-indexing seems reasonable, but changing APIs around when there's not a good reason behind it (other than someone liked the name a little better) should still be approached with caution. -Yonik Apache Lucene Eurocon 2010 18-21 May 2010 | Prague --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
