I'd like to get thoughts from folks about making a 0.8.0 release. This will be a preview release - to make the changes from TEZ-2003 available for downstream consumption.
1. In terms of versioning. This could be called 0.8.0-alpha. The next release (assuming it's still alpha) could be a) 0.8.0-alpha2, or b) 0.8.1-alpha. I'm in favor of option b - i.e. 0.8.1-alpha 2. In terms of branching - releases from this branch should get all the changes going into master. To that extent, I'll create a branch just for the release, but I don't think subsequent commits into master need to be cherry-picked into this branch. Whenever the next release is required, another branch can be created from master itself. Thanks - Sid
