Robert Muir created LUCENE-5940:
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Summary: change index backwards compatibility policy.
Key: LUCENE-5940
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5940
Project: Lucene - Core
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Robert Muir
Currently, our index backwards compatibility is unmanageable. The length of
time in which we must support old indexes is simply too long.
The index back compat works like this: everyone wants it, but there are
frequently bugs, and when push comes to shove, its not a very sexy thing to
work on/fix, so its hard to get any help.
Currently our back compat "promise" is just a broken promise, because we cannot
actually guarantee it for these reasons.
I propose we scale back the length of time for which we must support old
indexes.
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