On 4/26/10 8:23 AM, Robert Muir wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:rcm...@gmail.com>
That's why we are talking about a proposal that would change our back compat commitments.
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