Yes Anshum HTTP APIs and SolrJ must have strong backcompat We should have a process to mark some internal APIs as backward compatible using some annotation/javadoc. This will help plugin writers
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > As I understand, seems like there's reasonable consensus that we will: > > 1. provide strong back-compat for for SolrJ and REST APIs > 2. Strive to maintain but not guarantee *strong* back-compat for Java APIs. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I was looking at refactoring code in Solr and it gets really tricky and >> confusing in terms of what level of back-compat needs to be maintained. >> Ideally, we should only maintain back-compat at the REST API level. We may >> annotate a few really important Java APIs where we're guarantee back-compat >> across minor versions, but we shouldn't certainly be doing that across the >> board. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> P.S: I hope this doesn't spin-off into something I fear :) >> >> -- >> Anshum Gupta > > > > > -- > Anshum Gupta -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
