On May 21, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Michael McCandless wrote:
1) Default settings can change; we will always choose defaults based
on "latest & greatest for new users". This only affects "runtime
behavior". EG in 2.9, when sorting by field you won't get scores
by default. When we do this we should clearly document the
change, and what settings one could use to get back to the old
behavior, in CHANGES.txt.
I'd reverse 1 and 2 and note in 1 that the old behavior might be
deprecated.
2) An API, once released as deprecated, is fair game to be removed
in the next minor release.
I presume you mean that it will be present for at least one full minor
release. So, if at 3.1.5 a deprecation is introduced, then it won't be
removed until 3.3 at the earliest, because 3.2 was the first minor
release in which it appeared at the start. I don't think it is fair to
expect users to get every last point release.
If so +1 from a user.
We still only make bug fixes on point releases, support the index file
format until the next major release -- those don't change.
Is it just the index file format? I would hope that the behavior of
filters, analyzers and such would not change so as to invalidate an
index.
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