: 1. It does not make any user-facing changes in 1.3 -- no configuration is : touched at all. This was one of the major support issues.
But it does affect users ... it opens them up to start seeing plugin developers using new/different syntaxes they aren't familiar with -- syntaxes that will definitely confuse people and increase the number of questions about how to configure things. : configuration post 1.3 but we should not force plugin developers to use an : ugly format for the next 1 year (till spring or whatever comes along) if : something can be done about it so easily. As I said in the email that spawned that Jira issue -- Plugin writers are free to load their own custom config files containing more complicated information -- those files can be any syntax they want, and by being seperate files it will not suprise people that they are a different syntax, and it will be clear what they should ask questions about: "I'm looking at the FooRequestHandler config file, if i don't understnad it i should ask about the FooRequestHandler config file syntax" when you start allowing drasticly differnet syntaxes for different instances (FooRequestHandler vs BarRequestHandler) of the type (RequestHandler) directly in solrconfig.xml then users don't really know what to ask about ... the expectation is that within the solrconfig.xml the syntax for configuring RequestHandler X is the same as for RequestHandler Y ... the names/values of the options may be differnet, but the syntax should be the same : I wasn't sure if a -0 is the same as a -1 but I'll roll this back if I made : a mistake in handling this in the correct fashion. http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html You essentially had two people saying "yes"; two people saying "I won't get in the way, but I'd rather we didn't do this"; and one guy (me) who didn't specificly "vote" but did express a lot of concern that this will introduce confusion ... that doesn't really sound like a lot of support. If I'd been in your shoes, I wouldn't have commited. Anytime you have multiple committers who are concerned about the impacts of something, it's probably wise to discuss some more. -Hoss
