Hi All, We recently ran into many issues due to Beam dependencies being significantly out of date. For example see [1], [2], and [3].
Yifan Zou recently introduced a proposal [4] that would allow us to identify outdated dependencies. But to really make sure that this helps the Beam project and community I believe we should adapt several small policy changes to our development and release process. To this end, I have created following short document that identifies the dependency issue and proposes several policy changes. I greatly appreciate if you can take a look and comment. https://docs.google.com/document/d/15m1MziZ5TNd9rh_XN0YYBJfYkt0Oj-Ou9g0KFDPL2aA/edit?usp=sharing Thanks, Cham [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3098 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3991 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-4229 [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/758625106a6cfe9ba23d7b39625da20e050c6279b138b18b3f0013e7@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E
