[MM3-users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Rolling releases for Container Images and Funding Campaign for Mailman

On Nov 12, 2017, at 11:06, Simon Hanna <simon@hannaweb.eu> wrote:

Scenario: Core changes something about rest that is backwards incompatible. The change is commited to master.

The REST API is versioned, so it would be a bug to introduce a backward incompatibility in the same API version. That’s why for example a new API version was introduced to handle the UUID data type change. There was no way to make that backward compatible, so we had to bump the API version, but we didn’t remove the old API version so clients written against that still work. Adding a new API generally doesn’t require bumping the API version.

Cheers, -Barry