On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 23:51 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:43:19PM -0700, Rao Shoaib wrote: > > Jim, > > > > I have been told that we can ask ISC to maintain backward compatibility > > for documented interfaces. So we would like to change the classification > > of all the documented interfaces to Committed. > > Have ISC agreed to do this? If not, I feel that the change is somewhat > premature.
The most important part isn't what ISC agrees to do, but what the project team is willing to guarantee to consumers of the interface. If these are Committed interfaces, then the project team and the entity that delivers the OS need to treat them as such. This means that if the upstream source changes in a way that is counter to that classification, then something must be done to maintain backward compatibility beyond just sucking the upstream sources unmodified. That has been done before... -Seb
