Re: Merge policies regarding bindings

--On Wednesday, December 17, 2003 2:17 PM -0600 kfogel@collab.net wrote:

> I think the bindings commits should be treated the same way as any
> other commit, as far as the 1.0 release branch goes.

I agree 100%. I don't think we should have exceptions.

> So no, I'm not in favor of automatic approval for bindings changes.
> And I hope to get us to be a little more conservative about the other
> proposed changes as well.

As a user, I'd be mad if my Perl code bound against 1.0.5 doesn't work in
1.0.6 because we have separate rules for the bindings that allow breakage.

I think our users should expect that applications written against *any*
bindings (C, Perl, Python, Java) distributed in the 'official' 1.0 should work
for all of 1.0. This is where I think we start to define when/how we bump SVN
versions as a whole. I'd really like to see a discussion on what changes are
going to merit bumps. What does a schema change mean? Protocol change? Core
API change? I'd like to have those defined and public soon-ish. -- justin

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Received on Fri Dec 19 08:10:42 2003