Thanks, Wes.
Ok, I'll bump the version to 0.2.0 and release what we have, which hasn't
changed since the last kudu release.
If we go a few releases without needing different releases for the python
client then we can make it match.
I'll do the release to pypi today.

-david

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm fine with releasing them at the same time, but I would propose
> that we use separate version numbering to avoid potential confusion in
> the future should the releases decouple. If different version numbers
> cause some concern, then using the same number for now is OK as long
> as we aren't closing the door on faster releases (for example: urgent
> bug fixes — I suspect that the Python client will in general have
> strictly more bugs than the C++ client) in the future.
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:32 AM, David Alves <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If we're bumping and if everyone agrees I propose we just bum the version
> > to match kudu and, for now at least, go with the plan of releasing the
> > python client at the same time as the rest of kudu.
> > Wes: you ok with that?
> >
> > -david
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> So, right now our PyPI package is incompatible with the latest releases
> >> due to some client ABI changes. For now, I'd propose we bump the
> version to
> >> 0.2.0.
> >>
> >> Regarding release cadence, keep in mind that we need to do a vote before
> >> any public release (even if it's just the python client). So, I'm not
> sure
> >> how realistic it is to have a significantly faster python release
> cadence
> >> than the rest of the software.
> >>
> >> -Todd
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Adar Dembo <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Wes and I discussed this very issue in
> >>> http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/1593 two months ago.
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Casey Ching <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > I’d also go with separating the version numbers. Hopefully eventually
> >>> the
> >>> > client api will be stable and won’t change much, then a new Kudu
> release
> >>> > won’t require a python release. If the version are made to match,
> there
> >>> > should come a time when the python version number needs to be bumped
> >>> just
> >>> > to keep the versions in sync though no actual python/client changes
> were
> >>> > made.
> >>> >
> >>> > If you are worried about client/server compatibility, maybe there is
> >>> > something that can be done such that the client/server verify that
> they
> >>> are
> >>> > in fact compatible through some api call.
> >>> >
> >>> > Casey
> >>> > On March 9, 2016 at 4:10:40 PM, David Alves ([email protected])
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > We intend to produce Kudu releases every couple of months.
> >>> > It's also worth noting that while we can keep a different release
> >>> cadence
> >>> > for the python client we still need to go through a vote and do a
> proper
> >>> > release.
> >>> > Do you feel like its worth the additional work to increase the
> cadence
> >>> or
> >>> > do you feel that 2 months is likely enough?
> >>> > As an alternative we could have a primary plan to make the
> major/minor
> >>> > versions match and release in the same cadence, but reserve the right
> >>> to do
> >>> > ad-hoc micro releases occasionally.
> >>> > Thoughts?
> >>> >
> >>> > Best
> >>> > David
> >>> >
> >>> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Wes McKinney <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > Since I expect the Python client to evolve faster from a user
> >>> > > perspective (as opposed to Kudu core, where users will see
> basically a
> >>> > > stable client API and wire protocol in general) I'd prefer to make
> >>> > > Python releases separate from Kudu major/minor releases. For
> example,
> >>> > > sometime in the next couple months I would like to add low-level
> >>> > > (C-level) interoperability between pandas, NumPy, and Kudu. It
> would
> >>> > > be nice to be able to ship this basically as soon as it's
> available in
> >>> > > trunk. This is somewhat independent from the version numbering
> >>> > > question, but it would probably be better for the Python client and
> >>> > > interop tools to have their own version number. If the Kudu
> committers
> >>> > > feel otherwise, it's not an issue -- some of this depends on the
> >>> > > expected release cadence of Kudu itself.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > best,
> >>> > > Wes
> >>> > >
> >>> > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:49 PM, David Alves <[email protected]
> >
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> > > > Hi All
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > We'll need to release a new version of the python client to pypi
> >>> and we
> >>> > > > were discussing versioning strategies.
> >>> > > > Currently the python's client version does not match the version
> of
> >>> the
> >>> > > > c++ client/server (0.1.0 versus 0.7.1) and we can either stick
> with
> >>> > that
> >>> > > > and keep different versions, or change it to match the latest
> Kudu
> >>> > > release.
> >>> > > > Making the versions match would have the advantage of making it
> >>> clear
> >>> > > to
> >>> > > > developers if the server/client versions match or not, which
> might
> >>> help
> >>> > > > weeding out compatibility bugs. On the other hand keeping
> different
> >>> > > > versions would likely make our lives easier if we want to release
> >>> the
> >>> > > > python client at a different cadence of regular Kudu releases.
> >>> > > > What do people think?
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > Best
> >>> > > > David
> >>> > >
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Todd Lipcon
> >> Software Engineer, Cloudera
> >>
>

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