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Tim Smith commented on LUCENE-5940: ----------------------------------- bq. I don't care what happens on this issue, personally, I'm done working on back compat completely until the policy changes. That includes the current in-progress 4.10.1 release. I've done more than my fair share of fighting it, and it just causes me endless frustration. fully your prerogative, this is a volunteer community. i'm just putting in my 2 cents here since a change here will really be painful to me personally of course i'm not a committer, so i have no final say > change index backwards compatibility policy. > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-5940 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5940 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Robert Muir > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org