Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hello Frank, > > On Thursday 14 May 2009, 15:12, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany > wrote: >> Hi Ariel, >> >> > is there already a general agreement about when API changes will be >> > allowed? >> >> In my understanding, there was no definitive answer to this question in >> the thread which discussed it. The general consensus seemed to be >> towards "change anything you like (as long as it's reasonable) in a >> major release". In my opinion, this /perhaps/ is somewhat too generous >> for a major release, and /definitely/ too restrictive for all >> intermediate releases. > > well, I couldn't find info about the OOo 2.0 release, but just comparing > > OOo 2.0.1 = Dec. 2005 > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease201 > > OOo 3.0 = Oct 2008 > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease30 > > If major releases happen every 3 years, then allowing API changes only on a > mayor release does not make much sense to me.
That depends from where you look at it. We always must consider that API users expect API stability, so we need to find a good compromise. Changing APIs every 6 months definitely isn't one. I think that for now aiming for 4.0 as the first release that allows for incompatible API changes is reasonable and I see this as a good opportunity to get the most annoying things fixed. So perhaps the "pressure" to have more fixes only a few months later shouldn't be too high and for now I would like to plan for 5.0 as the next release for more changes. That leaves a lot of time for further discussion whether we should also allow for changes in (some) minors or if 3 years between two majors perhaps is too much anyway. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
