Chart updates which require a manual backup restore should be major updates?

[pat-s]

Description
We're using meilisearch since v1.0.0 and it looks like that every minor version release requires a manual backup and restore and the update won't just work out of the box.

This becomes an issue if the chart also only releases a minor update as a lot of infra-automation tools aim to auto-merge minor and patch updates (e.g. renovate) as these release types usually indicate non-breaking changes.
Now if this happens for meilisearch the update will fail as one cannot simply update from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 and so on. I assume this will be the case for future meilisearch releases as well?

My proposal would be to release a major version of the chart if a new meilisearch release is included which does not support auto-updating. This way, automation won't do the update and manual work is required - which at least keeps the running/old instance working.

[pat-s]

Now what I described above happened with the 0.2.7 chart release, bumping to meilisearch 1.4 which does not work OOB...

[brunoocasali]

As far as I remember, based on our versioning policy https://github.com/meilisearch/engine-team/blob/main/resources/versioning-policy.md yes, for every new update, you will have to make a dump and restart your infra. I agree that's not the best, but we have yet to find a solution.

So, I am keen to agree with you to release a major version of the chart for each new release of meilisearch that is not a patch.
This will be an "alert" to the users that they can't simply run a chart update, and it will work. They need to watch the changelog.

Unless @curquiza changes my mind on the subject I think we can do it for the next releases.

[curquiza]

Agreed with you if this is something the community prefers!

[brunoocasali]

Ok, cool, let's do it then!

I don't think we have to change it anything is more a mindset/process than a real code-change, so the next release it will start following this pattern.

Thanks for your inputs @pat-s and @curquiza ;)