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Michael Sokolov commented on LUCENE-5940:
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I'll echo Erick's question, and close soon if there isn't any further comment.
As I understand it, we did this. The current (de facto, at least) policy is to
support the last major release with backcompat, no? I found this documented
here:
[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/BackwardsCompatibility]
maybe it's elsewhere too?
> change index backwards compatibility policy.
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>
> Key: LUCENE-5940
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5940
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Priority: Major
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> 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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