On Jun 12, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Alan Burlison <alan.burli...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 14/05/2015 18:41, Chris Nauroth wrote: > >> As a reminder though, the community probably would want to see a strong >> justification for the upgrade in terms of features or performance or >> something else. Right now, I'm not seeing a significant benefit for us >> based on my reading of their release notes. I think it's worthwhile to >> figure this out first. Otherwise, there is a risk that any testing work >> turns out to be a wasted effort. > > One reason at least: PB 2.5.0 has no support for Solaris SPARC. 2.6.1 does. That's a pretty good reason. Some of us had a discussion at Summit about effectively forking protobuf and making it an Apache TLP. This would give us a chance to get out from under Google's blind spot, guarantee better compatibility across the ecosystem, etc, etc. It is sounding more and more like that's really what needs to happen.