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Tim Smith commented on LUCENE-5940:
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time based would be much more reasonable
as long as people are on a 4.x release that is less 1-2 years old, they should
be able to move directly to 5.0
supporting indexes 4+ years old is asking a bit much, but assuming an external
release cycle of 1 year, a 1-2 year cutoff is manageable
> change index backwards compatibility policy.
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> Key: LUCENE-5940
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5940
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
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> Currently, our index backwards compatibility is unmanageable. The length of
> time in which we must support old indexes is simply too long.
> The index back compat works like this: everyone wants it, but there are
> frequently bugs, and when push comes to shove, its not a very sexy thing to
> work on/fix, so its hard to get any help.
> Currently our back compat "promise" is just a broken promise, because we
> cannot actually guarantee it for these reasons.
> I propose we scale back the length of time for which we must support old
> indexes.
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