Hi,

I fully agree with Robert here.

I originally sent the question about branch_8x because of this. Once we 
released Lucene 9.0 wen can't release 8.12, because the index file format will 
be brand marked as originating from 8.12 then, which 9.0 will refuse to read.

We can only release 8.11.x which is not allowed to have index format changes 
and minor version numbers are not persisted.

So -1 to release a 8.12 an time in future. If you still want one, hold 9.0 
release and add precautions for this.

Imho. Let's stop releasing 8.12 or later for Lucene/Solr and just add Bugfixes. 
This also applies to Solr. Later this is decoupled, so Solr 9.1234 may use 
Lucene 10.4711.

As said before: let's close branch 8.x and add protection to it in GitHub. 
Anybox may merge Bugfixes directly from Solr or Lucene main I to branch_8_11. I 
see no problem. Just no index changes!

Uwe

Am 21. November 2021 11:51:34 UTC schrieb Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com>:
>I gave my technical justification: our backwards compatibility testing
>doesnt work this way. 9.0 can't have guaranteed back compat with
>versions coming in the future. This is lunacy.
>
>On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 6:30 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya
><ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#Veto
>>
>> "To prevent vetoes from being used capriciously, the voter must provide with 
>> the veto a *technical justification* showing why the change is bad (opens a 
>> security exposure, negatively affects performance, etc. ). A veto without a 
>> justification is invalid and has no weight."
>>
>> On Sun, 21 Nov, 2021, 3:30 pm Robert Muir, <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think we should remove this branch.
>>>
>>> personally, i'll probably -1 any commit to it. I'll see if i can
>>> automate such an email response with a gmail rule.
>>>
>>> we already released lucene 9.0, we can't change backwards
>>> compatibility for some 8.12, same old story, lets move on people.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 9:29 AM Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Uwe brought up the question on a the vote thread: we are not going to do 
>>> > a 8.12 release, so what should we do of branch_8x?
>>>
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