Hi Bruno, A comment below.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 1:20 AM Bruno Cadonna <cado...@apache.org> wrote: > BC2: > Another aspect that confuses me in the KIP is the bridge version for > clients. If my broker version is 3.9.x, I can do a direct upgrade from > 1.0.x to 4.0.x (let apart the Java API compatibility mentioned above). > The 4.0.x release tests 4.0.x clients against 3.9.x brokers and the > 3.9.x release tests 1.0.x clients against 3.9.x brokers. It is not clear > to me why we need a bridge release in this case. > We don't test client upgrades from 1.0.x to 4.0.x. They may work, but it's untested. Again, we are focusing on simplicity versus flexibility for edge cases. The number of people upgrading from 1.0 to 4.0 is very low (if not zero). That's why I still think the simple description I provided in my other message is the way to go Deprecated APIs may or may not affect users, so that has to be evaluated on a case by case basis. Ismael
