ChrisHegarty commented on issue #14623: URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/14623#issuecomment-2866257196
Thanks @javanna - that captures the dilemma very well, and I really appreciate the devil’s advocate angle. Your summary gets to the heart of the issue: early adoption is good for Lucene, but it’s high-stakes for downstream users without a safe rollback path. That tension is what we’re trying to solve - not by expecting Lucene to support multiple formats indefinitely, but by introducing just enough flexibility to let early adopters help without risking production stability. You’re right that some bugs will only surface in production, and we’ve seen time and again that early rollouts help discover those faster — which benefits the entire ecosystem. But for that to be sustainable, we need tools or policies that give us room to react. Today, a bad bug means we likely be stuck: we can’t downgrade the code because the index format changed, and we can’t write the old format because the writer was removed. This isn't about freezing minor releases - it's about isolating risk so adopters can iterate safely and fix forward or roll back with confidence. I really like the idea of looking at this as a way to encourage faster adoption. If users know they can upgrade quickly and safely - with a rollback path - I think we’ll see more adoption, not less. I recognize that my initial proposals might not be the ideal solutions, and I'm not strongly advocating for either one in particular. There may be other viable alternatives worth exploring — assuming, of course, that supporting this kind of scenario is something we agree is worth addressing in Lucene. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lucene.apache.org
