On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:45 AM Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi guys, > I didn't find a page about beam release support. With the fast minor release rrythm which is targetted by beam (see other threads on that), I wonder what - as an end user - you should expect as breakage between versions (minor can add API but shouldn't break them typically) and how long a version can get fixes (can I get a fix on the 2.0.0 - 2.0.1 - now the 2.3.0 is out?). We promise semantic versioning, in particular API stability for minor releases: https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/#api-stability . > A page with some engagements like "we support majors for 3 years, minors for 6 months" would be very beneficial for end users IMO. Good point, though it's unclear what "support" means in the absence of SLOs, etc. > Technically I also think beam should use clirr (I know there is a maven plugin, not sure about gradle but it is clearly not a technical blocker). It would allow to enforce the policy at build time and avoid surprises. +1 to any and all automation of policies like this. (Of course the tricky bits are behavioral differences. In addition, all our public APIs should be covered by tests, and any changes to existing tests should be vetted in reviews and backwards incompatibility called out there.)
