+1 to Dan
+1 to Bruce - the distributedTest extensions for backward compatibility would 
great

> On Nov 1, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Bruce Schuchardt <bschucha...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> I still have the backward-compatibility distributedTest extensions that I 
> could contribute.  The extension lets you spawn a VM running an older version 
> and interact with it.  You can even run a unit test in the spawned VM.
> 
> I have one test that sets up a server using the current version and then 
> spawns a client unit test running under an older version.  The client finds 
> the server through the distributedTest locator and runs its tests against the 
> server.
> 
> 
> Le 11/1/2016 à 4:04 PM, Jianxia Chen a écrit :
>> +1
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Dan Smith <dsm...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> We made a lot of changes in 1.0 that broke compatibility with old versions
>>> of gemfire for various reasons (package renaming, changing membership
>>> system). I just wanted to confirm that starting with 1.1, we're planning on
>>> maintaining client/server, peer-to-peer, WAN and disk backwards
>>> compatibility with older versions geode as outlined in this wiki page:
>>> 
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Managing+Backward+
>>> Compatibility
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/
>>> Criteria+for+Code+Submissions
>>> 
>>> Now that we have 1.0 out the door, we need to be more careful about
>>> introducing changes that might break compatibility if we're going to stick
>>> to these guidelines. We also probably should introduce some tests that
>>> check compatibility with 1.0.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Dan
>>> 
> 

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