[GitHub] [lucenenet] rclabo commented on issue #793: When will the 4.8.0 version be released？

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rclabo commented on issue #793:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/issues/793#issuecomment-1635918971

   @laimis I think that makes a lot of sense.  Given that we haven't previously had an approach for versioning when rolling bug fixes or breaking changes once Lucene.NET 4.8 is released it's very understandable that we have held a very high bar to what needs to be achieved before doing a production release.  
   
   I personally think that what you propose as a solution seems reasonable.  And who knows, perhaps someone will offer up other solutions that may be even better.  But I think as a dev community we need to rally around some versioning approach whatever it is.  Having a versioning approach and an understanding of what versions align with Java Lucene and which ones don't will give us the freedom to get Lucene.NET released.  
   
   Doing a production release of the library will untie the hands of developers that would love to use it but who are restricted from doing so due to company policies not allowing pre-release software into production environments.  Releasing the software will thus grow our developer community and hopefully our committer pool as well.  Also, releasing the software will grow the use cases that are actively being utilized and provide valuable feedback on where the library can be improved.
   
   What you propose seems reasonable however it's a bit challenging that this is a release of 4.8.1 rather than 4.0.  As such we only have 4.9 as a potential breaking change release, then we hit a major version 5.0.  This could cause us to be forced to release a braking change as a point release, say 4.9.1.  This challenge of course goes away in the future if the next major release of Lucene.NET has a low minor release number.  e.g. 10.3 but we have the same issue in the future if the next major release of Lucene.NET has a high minor release number like 9.7 (the current version of Java Lucene).  It's a bit challenging I guess, but we may just have to get comfortable with the idea of a breaking change in a point release.  ie. 4.91. (shrug)


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