Hi folks! Apologies if I missed this discussion; I’ve read back through the dev list through 2021. I wanted to make sure I have the correct expectations before I start stomping around in Jira.
I haven’t found a write up anywhere on what promises we make for major/minor/patch versions. What is the current expectation for: - compatibility of configs - compatibility of versions of things we can connect to (e.g. Kafka servers) - compatibility of folks who implement our APIs to make their own components - removal of capabilities I know a big focus right now is on updating dependencies.Talking about expectations for the above ahead of time will help downstream users understand how difficult adopting those new dependencies will be from their perspective. Our last release was 1.9.0 in ~2019. The `trunk` branch currently has a SNAPSHOT version of 1.10.0. Right now JIRA has a combination of closed issues since 1.9.0 that say they are for version “2.0.0” and “1.10.0” and AFAICT the changes associated with them are all in the trunk branch. What is our next planned release version? What is the planned release after that? If our next planned release is 1.10.0 and the release after that is 2.0.0, I think we should create a branch-1.10 now so that we have a place to triage which changes might need to be backed out depending on the above expectations for compatibility. If we’re not planning on a 2.0.0 this year, then we’ll need to review the already landed changes to make sure they’re in line with whatever expectations we want to set about compatibility.
