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I recently updated a website to the latest version of Drupal.<\/p>\n\n
Doing so introduced a bug in a contributed module I was using.<\/p>\n\n
A fix was committed to the 2.x branch of the module, which is still in an unstable alpha phase, and the issue was closed.<\/p>\n\n
There was no fix for the stable 1.x branch.<\/p>\n\n
There was no fix backported to the 1.x branch.<\/p>\n\n
There are breaking changes between the 1.x and 2.x branches that require me to update custom code that uses the module, which I don't want to do yet, and I don't want to update to an unstable version.<\/p>\n\n
If you maintain open-source software, don't force people to update too quickly.<\/p>\n\n
If you can, make it easy for people to update to the next major version by keeping breaking changes to a minimum and providing time and clear instructions for doing so.<\/p>\n\n
If these are too difficult, it could discourage or prevent people from using your software.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
I recently updated a website to the latest version of Drupal.<\/p>\n\n
Doing so introduced a bug in a contributed module I was using.<\/p>\n\n
A fix was committed to the 2.x branch of the module, which is still in an unstable alpha phase, and the issue was closed.<\/p>\n\n
There was no fix for the stable 1.x branch.<\/p>\n\n
There was no fix backported to the 1.x branch.<\/p>\n\n
There are breaking changes between the 1.x and 2.x branches that require me to update custom code that uses the module, which I don't want to do yet, and I don't want to update to an unstable version.<\/p>\n\n
If you maintain open-source software, don't force people to update too quickly.<\/p>\n\n
If you can, make it easy for people to update to the next major version by keeping breaking changes to a minimum and providing time and clear instructions for doing so.<\/p>\n\n
If these are too difficult, it could discourage or prevent people from using your software.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }