The second option Benchao mentions is what Hive currently does as well. Best regards, Alessandro
On Sat 4 Mar 2023, 13:19 Benchao Li, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Thank for reaching out! > > IIRC, the idea of releasing bugfix version has been brought up in the past, > but I couldn't find the discussion (in Jira and dev ML). > > I'd like to share my understanding why we chose not to release bug fix > versions, please correct me if I'm wrong, > - Calcite has many bug fixes that span multi versions (even more that 10 > versions), then only keeping several (such as 3) bug fix releases does not > solve all these problems. > - Actually we usually do not distinguish too much between "bugfix" and "new > feature", so maintaining bug fix releases is not that easy. > - Calcite lacks reviewers and also release managers, only keeping linear > releasing in rhythm could save us some efforts. > > For regressions, I agree that this hurts downstream projects. For such > cases, there are two approaches come into my mind: > - We can release a new version quickly than usual. > - The projects that need the fix/feature before our next scheduled release, > they could copy these files into their projects, as we already did in > Flink[1]. They could remove these files once they adopt the new release of > Calcite. > > I hope this helps. > > [1] > > https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/master/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite > > > Charles Givre <[email protected]> 于2023年3月2日周四 06:22写道： > > > Hello Calcite Devs, > > I wanted to thank everyone for the recent release of Calcite 1.33. I am > > the PMC Chair for Apache Drill and we just released Drill 1.21[0] which > is > > now using the latest version of Calcite instead of our 2-3 year old fork! > > > > However, we encountered a small issue with Calcite 1.33 that does not > > affect just Drill. Specifically, there was a regression which was caused > > by CALCITE-5447[1] which effectively broke the DATE_TRUNC function. The > > bugfix has been fixed and merged in CALCITE-5522[2]. > > > > In any event, given that this function is fairly important and the > lengthy > > release schedules of both Drill and Calcite, I wanted to ask whether the > > Calcite might consider doing a quick bugfix release with this and any > other > > regressions that may have popped up in 1.33 and have since been fixed. > > > > Thank you very much for all your work! > > Best, > > -- Charles > > > > > > [0]: > > > https://github.com/apache/drill-site/blob/master/blog/_posts/en/2023-02-21-drill-1.21.0-released.md > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5447 > > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5522 > > > > -- > > Best, > Benchao Li >
