Hi, Following the GoCQL donation we need to change the module name so it matches the new repo URL. Currently users have to keep using the old name unless they add a rewrite to go.mod.
There was a discussion on what the approach should be on #1776 [1] and I've created CASSANDRA-19993 [2] to track this work. Since this is a breaking change (it requires users to modify their imports or add a rewrite to go.mod) we need to bump the major version when we do this. With this in mind, there's some topics to discuss: 1) When do we want to make this module name change happen? We can keep doing minor releases under the old module name but it is a bit confusing for new users to have to import gocql using a Github repo URL that effectively no longer exists. Also the amount of users that will be impacted by the module name change will only increase the longer we wait. 2) Should we take this opportunity to include other breaking change related issues with the module name change? Martin mentioned on the gocql mailing list [3] that there's a few issues on Github that are tagged with "semver-major" [4] and these should be considered for a new major release. My take on these topics is that we should work on some of those tagged issues when we decide to change the module name as long as these breaking changes don't require users to significantly rewrite parts of their application. We should make this upgrade and module name change to be the least intrusive as possible for users. Note that *the cassandra-gocql-driver project officially maintains the latest release* *only* (single active branch) so doing a major release effectively drops support for the previous major immediately which means we have an even stronger incentive to make the upgrade as easy as possible. I'm planning on reviewing protocol v5 and vector support PRs soon and we should probably make these 2 contributions available to users as soon as possible. To do this we can do a minor release before we start working on the next major. I'm also open to the idea that we could postpone the major release development and keep doing minor releases for a little longer under the old module name. In summary, my proposal for a short to medium term roadmap is: 1) Release 1.8.0 with v5 and vector support (and potentially other small PRs, I've only looked at these 2 issues yet) 2) Release 2.0.0 with the module name change, some (if not all) of the "semver-major" tagged issues and other contributions Let me know your thoughts, João Reis [1] https://github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/issues/1776 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19993 [3] https://groups.google.com/g/gocql/c/v0FruczBb2w/m/7Hc3_W9QCgAJ [4] https://github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Asemver-major
