Change backwards-compatibility policy
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Key: LUCENE-1698
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1698
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: Michael Busch
Assignee: Michael Busch
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 3.0
These proposed changes might still change slightly:
I'll call X.Y -> X+1.0 a 'major release', X.Y -> X.Y+1 a
'minor release' and X.Y.Z -> X.Y.Z+1 a 'bugfix release'. (we can later
use different names; just for convenience here...)
1. The file format backwards-compatiblity policy will remain unchanged;
i.e. Lucene X.Y supports reading all indexes written with Lucene
X-1.Y. That means Lucene 4.0 will not have to be able to read 2.x
indexes.
2. Deprecated public and protected APIs can be removed if they have
been released in at least one major or minor release. E.g. an 3.1
API can be released as deprecated in 3.2 and removed in 3.3 or 4.0
(if 4.0 comes after 3.2).
3. No public or protected APIs are changed in a bugfix release; except
if a severe bug can't be changed otherwise.
4. Each release will have release notes with a new section
"Incompatible changes", which lists, as the names says, all changes that
break backwards compatibility. The list should also have information
about how to convert to the new API. I think the eclipse releases
have such a release notes section. Furthermore, the Deprecation tag
comment will state the minimum version when this API is to be removed, e.g.
@deprecated See #fooBar(). Will be removed in 3.3
or
@deprecated See #fooBar(). Will be removed in 3.3 or later.
I'd suggest to treat a runtime change like an API change (unless it's fixing a
bug of course),
i.e. giving a warning, providing a switch, switching the default behavior only
after a major
or minor release was around that had the warning/switch.
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