But if we shade a dependency, are’t we effectively making it *private*, in 
which case a minor revision bump would be unnecessary? I would think using the 
shaded/private versions of storm’s dependencies should be done at one’s own 
risk, i.e. knowing they are subject to change.

-Taylor

> On May 19, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Bobby Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com.INVALID> wrote:
> 
> We almost never add new dependencies to storm-core without shading first.  I 
> don't think it will be an explosion in minor revisions, but that is just me.
>  - Bobby
> 
>    On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 4:58 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good point.
> 
> I guess the problem is that we have no way of knowing what dependencies a 
> user could potentially use in their topologies. Semantic versioning can't 
> really help with that without a potential explosions of minor revisions. 
> Maybe the best option is to document such dependency changes in release notes?
> 
> -Taylor
> 
>> On May 18, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Bobby Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com.INVALID> wrote:
>> 
>> But adding something that was not there before is just the same thing.  If I 
>> have a topology that is using guava, and storm adds in a dependency with a 
>> different version to the classpath without shading it, I just broke that 
>> topology.
>>   - Bobby
>> 
>>     On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:26 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 18, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Bobby Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com.INVALID> wrote:
>> If this is for 1.x then we might want to go to 1.1, not sure what the policy 
>> is for adding something new to the classpath.
>> - Bobby
>> 
>> There was a discussion thread around this. My feeling is that for 1.x, since 
>> we are adding APIs we should bump the minor version (i.e. 1.1.x).
>> I don’t think adding something to the classpath warrants a minor version 
>> bump unless it adds something to a *Storm* API.
>> -Taylor
>> 
> 

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