Decide and document source compatibility goals.
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Description
In particularly, how do we manage binary compatible but source incompatible changes, examples of which can be found here
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the source-compatibility examples in the linked Scala Contributors discussion and the compatibility concerns described in this issue. Done means the project's goals for handling binary-compatible but source-incompatible changes are decided and documented.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100