On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a possibility that someone can add material on how static the > specification documentation is
Minor versions are meant to have back-compatible APIs and both back- and forward-compatible data formats. Since the specification primarily concerns data formats, it's pretty stable. In particular, every schema since 1.0 can be parsed by every 1.x release and every datum serialized since 1.0 should be readable by every 1.x release. We broke this policy once, in 1.3, which incompatibly altered the Avro file format. I doubt we'll break it again. Any further changes to forward or backward data compatibility would require a 2.0 release. > where people should go if they find > something wrong/require more clarification about, etc. You're there! This information could be included in the specification. My instinct is to add it at the start, rather than the end, but I don't feel too strongly about that. Doug
