On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:42 PM Ahmet Altay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We attempted to collect feedback on the mailing lists but did not get >> much input. From my experience (mostly based on dataflow) there is a >> sizeable group of users who are less interested in new features and want a >> version that is stable, that does not have security issues, major data >> integrity issues etc. In Beam's existing release model that corresponds to >> the latest release. >> >> It would help a lot if we can hear the perspectives of other users who >> are not present here through the developers who work with them. >> > > Perhaps user@ and Twitter are good ways to reach relevant audience. > We tried user@ before did not get any feedback [1]. Polling on twitter sounds like a good idea. Unless there is an objection, I can start a poll with Thomas's proposed text as is on Beam's twitter account. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7d890d6ed221c722a95d9c773583450767b79ee0c0c78f48a56c7eba@%3Cuser.beam.apache.org%3E > > A poll could look like this: > > The Beam community is considering LTS (Long Term Support) for selected > releases. LTS releases would only contain critical bug fixes (security, > data integrity etc.) and offer an alternative to upgrading to latest Beam > release with new features. Please indicate your preference for Beam > upgrades: > > 1) Always upgrading to the latest release because I need latest features > along with bug fixes > 2) Interested to switch to LTS releases to obtain critical fixes > 3) Not upgrading (using older release for other reasons) > > > > > > > > > > >
