Here's a similar question that came up during the 5.0 release. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5944?focusedCommentId=14138919&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14138919
The reply to this was convincing back then as 5.0 was released for different reasons, and in different circumstances. It certainly wasn't the norm. Unless I'm missing something here, I don't see a reason to not keep 5x and even potentially release 5.6 at some point as long as some one has a reason and the time to work on a 5.6 release. Also, as Uwe said, it might be wasted effort committing to the 5x branch but that wouldn't hurt us. On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Yonik Seeley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Michael McCandless > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was simply going by what we did when we released 5.0, which was to > > remove the 4.x branch (or rename it to 4.10.x maybe, but the net > > effect is the same). I thought this was the practice for a major > > release. > > That was a one-off that caught a lot of people by surprise. It had > not been done on previous major releases. > There was already even a lot of work toward 4.11 when the deletion > happened IIRC. > > -Yonik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Anshum Gupta
