On Sep 20, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Phil Sorber <sor...@apache.org> wrote: > Asked about this in IRC, but wanted to bring it to the list. For > experimental plugins, do we need to abide by the backward compatibility > rule in a stable release? Same question probably applies to > ts/experimental.h. > > My opinion at first was no. It's experimental, duh! But the more I think > about it, I think it does apply. We want people to feel comfortable using > these plugins so that we get testing coverage and then we can move them to > the stable directory. > > Thoughts?
Good question. Some of the experimental plugins really should have moved to stable, so I bet that there are many production environments depending on them. In general we should be cautious with incompatible changes even with experimental APIs and plugins. We probably should evaluate this on a case by case basis. J
