On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:50:08PM +0200, Daan Hoogland wrote: > H, > > In the network thing I am trying to get you people to accept I want to add > a parameter to an api call. What is the policy (does it adhere to common > sense)? It is an extra parameter to the end of an otherwise unchanged call. > I am still checking to make sure it is really optional. If it is not can it > go in 4.3? Or must it wait till 5.0? > > thanks, > Daan
If you can add it as an optional param, with a reasonable default for backward compatibility, then it wouldn't cause us to bump the major version from 4 to 5. If there really isn't a logical default (and the param is *required*), then we would need to bump to 5 (based on current consensus for version numbering). We don't have any "plans" for a 5.x release line yet, and of course, past consensus can be changed. I expect that if we bump from 4 to 5, there will be a decent number of API changes that we'd want to also make (perhaps going so far as to switch from the query-based API approach to a RESTful model, or perhaps not). -chip
