Since we're getting close to cutting a 4.0 branch I'd like to float the idea of officially deprecating Graph X. What that would mean (to me) is we would update the docs to indicate that Graph X is deprecated and it's APIs may be removed at anytime in the future.
Alternatively, we could mark it as "unmaintained and in search of maintainers" with a note that if no maintainers are found, we may remove it in a future minor version. Looking at the source graph X, I don't see any meaningful active development going back over three years*. There is even a thread on user@ from 2017 asking if graph X is maintained anymore, with no response from the developers. Now I'm open to the idea that GraphX is stable and "works as is" and simply doesn't require modifications but given the user thread I'm a little concerned here about bringing this API with us into Spark 4 if we don't have anyone signed up to maintain it. * Excluding globally applied changes -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Fight Health Insurance: https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ <https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/?q=hk_email> Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau Pronouns: she/her
