+1 to the semantic versioning On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 1:32 PM, kiwiwings <kiwiwi...@apache.org> wrote:
> Javen O'Neal-2 wrote > > How many releases into the 4.x series will we allow for API breaks? If we > > need to make all of our API changes by the time 4.0 final releases, then > > we > > might have a few more 4.0 betas than other releases (and probably > wouldn't > > be ready for 4.0 final until Q2 2018). > > I forgot to mention a voting about semantic versioning: > d) apply semantic versioning for 4.0.0+? > > So we would have 4.0.1/.2... instead of the betas. > The problem with our beta-approach vs. semantic versioning is, that we can > have breaks in newly introduced APIs - and patch/minor versions ought to be > backwards-compatible. > If this contradiction is ok for you, I would say, as long as we keep > pushing > the patch versions, > we can keep changing the API. > > > > Yegor Kozlov-4 wrote > > JDK 1.8 might be an acceptance killer for Apache Tika, one of our major > > consumers, as Tika still compiles on JDK 1.7. It makes sense to drop a > > line > > to @tika-dev and confirm it. > > When writing the initial mail, I thought about this. > ... but I like to have the feedback first of the POI PMCs. > > Andi > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-poi.1045710.n5. > nabble.com/Discussions-on-POI-4-0-Java7-8-voting-tp5728560p5728564.html > Sent from the POI - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > >
