On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not that simple. If you want to commit a patch without having it > reverted, you *do* have to do certain things - currently, you have to > attempt back compat. Or don't commit. You guys seem to think its a free for > all. Its obviously not. Their are general guidelines we all follow, formed > by consensus. Committers are not just doing whatever they want. > > And we should make it easier for people to contribute. Perhaps back compat is a feature that isn't everyone's itch to scratch, you know, just like any other feature. This would make it easier for people to contribute/commit improvements to lucene (into the unstable only), and perhaps there would be more committers and contributors after a while.
Right now its a pretty high bar for someone to contribute an improvement, and I think the back compat requirement is a big part of that. -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
