I think it's ok to have a spi-extension version to be different from dubbo. Although it will cause some confusion for users, we have to make it clear in the document how to choose right version.
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:11 AM ranke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Independent version number can refer to Dubbo API Docs. > But I have two problems: > 1. If there is a separate version number, will it cause confusion for users? > 2. If you use the same version number as apache/dubbo, you have to > release the version at the same time as apache/dubbo. But in fact, some > subprojects have not been modified and are compatible with the new version. > Or some subprojects are not ready to release, so apache/dubbo needs > to wait? > > > > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > From: "Albumen Kevin"<[email protected]>; > Date: 2021年5月10日(星期一) 晚上9:34 > To: "dev"<[email protected]>; > Subject: [Discuss] The planning of dubbo-spi-extensions repo > > > > Hi Community, > > Currently we have a dubbo-spi-extensions repo[1] to contain some > infrequently used extensions which is also not necessary to remove from > dubbo. > Such as some customized cluster implementation is only used when healthy > checking, and there are some users who really depend on this implementation. > dubbo-spi-extensions repo is a good choice for these implementations, which > will not affect apache/dubbo for most users and provide a pluggable way if > users need it. > > Thanks for @haoyann hard work, we can make sure that dubbo-spi-extensions > can work fine with ExtensionLoader. > > However, there are some questions should be resolved: > > 1. How can we define an extension that is needed to move > to dubbo-spi-extensions while it is in apache/dubbo repo now? > > 2. How can we define the version of these sub projects? > > If we make these sub projects the same version at a time, we need to > publish the whole repo timing, so we can make sure the extensions are up to > date. Such as a month? > > If we make these sub projects having different versions, how can we publish > only one of them if needed? > > Do you have any suggestions? > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9248ffdc11716d5e1089911652ef69eb39ec33aeeda133e6b5c2e441%40%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E > > Albumen
