On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to try to release Avro 1.7.8 soon.
That would be great. > > I propose we merge to the 1.7 branch all of the compatible changes > that have been made to trunk but not yet merged to the 1.7 branch, > then roll the release candidate. > > Are there other compatible changes that folks would like to get into > 1.7.8 that have not yet been committed? We'll probably release 1.8.0 > soon, so there's no need to rush a new feature. What is important is > to get any deprecations in. I'd like to revisit immutable schemas. Now that we have a SchemaBuilder this might be a bit easier than when it was last discussed. I've posted a patch on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1608 that adds deprecations. It still needs a bit more work to check that it's possible to rewrite the implementation to avoid the deprecated methods. Cheers, Tom > > Doug
