Sean, Sure, please update it. I set the "fix version" to 1.8 earlier. Thanks!
Doug On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > >> AVRO-997 would be an incompatible change so we'd have to change the >> release name to 1.8.0 and folks might then reasonably adopt it more >> slowly, since it might break things. I'd prefer to wait until we have >> other more substantial incompatible changes; to group them together in >> a single incompatible release. >> >> > > Sure, that sounds reasonable. Mind if I update the ticket to reference this > so that observers know that the strict approach is a go, and that we're > just waiting to aggregate breakage? The ticket currently reads to me like > it's an open topic. > > > Also, I don't think of AVRO-997 as a bug but rather a lack of error >> checking. The proposed change is to no longer permit folks to pass a >> java.lang.Enum in generic data, but rather to force them to always use >> GenericEnumSymbol, or switch to using specific or reflect, which allow >> java.lang.Enum for enum symbols. So if this is causing you problems, >> you can simply change your code to use GenericEnumSymbol now rather >> than wait until 1.8.0 forces you to make that change. >> >> Am I missing something? >> > > That's essentially correct. > > -Sean
