vvcephei commented on pull request #8938: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8938#issuecomment-652173502
I had a chat with @ableegoldman earlier today. As a general strategy, maybe what we can do is aim to repair the non-downgradability where it exists. For example, when we release 2.5.1, then it will become possible to downgrade (with suppression) from 2.6.0 to 2.5.1 even though it's not possible to downgrade from 2.6.0 to 2.5.0. There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here, since we can't add the downgrade tests _yet_, but what I can do is to create the tickets to both fix the known downgrade issues and then add the relevant downgrade path to the test matrix. Similar to how I couldn't add an upgrade test from 2.1 to trunk, but I filed a ticket with a note that once the ticket is fixed, we should be able to add the missing test parameters. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
