The Amount of Breaking Changes is Staggering

[mgreystone]

I wish to share this feedback in the spirit of cooperation & teamwork.

The amount of changes in this project is staggering & overwhelming. Based on the changelog, there are three-to-four breaking changes a month. The current major version is 114.

I've come over from eslint-config-standard-with-typescript. Its stability alongside its common sense allowed us to lint the same way across multiple codebases. Since the change to eslint-config-love, each major version acts differently, making it difficult to keep multiple codebases in sync. I dread any time i must upgrade this library, because i'm either forced to spend hours making (sometimes major and risky) changes to my codebase. I'm at the point where i just go through the changelog & disable all new rules.

In its current state, the cost maintaining this eslint config is too high to justify its value. I hope there is a compromise where we can continue to have confidence in our existing code while pushing this project forward.

Thanks for listening.

[mightyiam]

Thank you for your feedback. This project can move forward, introducing new rules. That's the nature of linting; new rules might break your usage. New projects that use this project from the start can try to adhere to all the rules; that's a privileged situation. Existing projects would have to disable rules and then try to make progress by enabling rules incrementally. The same is true for bumping this as a dependency; if you can quickly fix the issues by adherence, that's ideal. But if you can't, you'd have to disable the new rules and possibly try to un-disable them in the future, when by some miracle you have time to do so. With this attitude, this project can make progress and users can benefit. Does all this sound acceptable?

If you have an issue with any specific rule, please do share. In a new thread, of course.

[mgreystone]

Thank you for your response. That is more or less the approach i have adopted, & if breaking changes were rare occurrence, i think that would be acceptable. But these changes are quite frequent, & the number of times i have had to do this in the last six months has worn me down to the point i am considering alternative projects.

I have considered pinning the version to the last one that is working for me, but i fear that an upstream eslint change will force me to upgrade & absorb all these changes all at once.

[mightyiam]

I'm sorry you feel this way, but I'm not sure how I can help you other than slowing down the pace of introducing new rules. Do you have any ideas?