[jboss-as7-dev] Subsystem model version for AS8

[Paul Ferraro]

Do the 2.x model versions need to be backwards compatible with 1.x versions?
i.e. Do we need transformers to support a domain with mixed major versions?
I hope not.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Stansberry" <brian.stansberry at redhat.com>
> To: "Tomaž Cerar" <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com>
> Cc: "JBoss AS7 Development" <jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:30:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Subsystem model version for AS8
> 
> Yes.
> 
> On 2/25/13 9:24 AM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
> > What about XSD schemas?
> >
> > probably same rule?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Brian Stansberry
> > <brian.stansberry at redhat.com <mailto:brian.stansberry at redhat.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Yes, major version bump please. This makes it straightforward
> >     to avoid
> >     version conflicts with EAP 6.x. If EAP 6.x needs to change API
> >     in more
> >     than a bug fix way, they can use a minor version with no fear
> >     that
> >     community AS has already used that # for something else.
> >
> >     On 2/25/13 7:11 AM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
> >      > Hi,
> >      >
> >      > I remember few discussions on IRC in last weeks(s) about how
> >      > to
> >     handle
> >      > version bumps for subsystem model when changes are done on
> >      > AS8
> >     codebase.
> >      >
> >      > It was somewhat agreed that instead of bumping minor version
> >      > we
> >     should
> >      > upgrade major version.
> >      >
> >      > aka instead of doing 1.2 --> 1.3, new version should be 2.0
> >      >
> >      > That gives us flexibility of bumping minor version to 7.x
> >      > codebase if
> >      > need arises.
> >      >
> >      > I am writing this as there was some PRs lately that bump
> >      > just
> >     minor version.
> >      >
> >      > So, can we get an agreement of new versioning rules, that we
> >      > will
> >     then
> >      > follow.
> >      >
> >      > I personalty favor major version bumps...
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > --
> >      > tomaz
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
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