alamb opened a new issue, #5023: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/5023
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.** DataFusion's mission statement is to be "easy to embed" from https://arrow.apache.org/datafusion/user-guide/introduction.html#why-datafusion Within the rust ecosystem, publishing to crates.io is the key way to make something easy to embed (other projects can then use it with a single line of `toml`). Thanks to @andygrove and other's work, we now are publishing official versions about once a month ❤️ (e.g. #4776 ) However, releasing even every month is still slower than optimal, as sometimes there are changes / bugs to the interfaces which aren't caught until after the release (e.g. most recently necessitating a patch release https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/4948) Many active users of datafuson today still use a fork or work off the master branch directly **Describe the solution you'd like** I propose publishing "nightly" releases of DataFusion to crates.io, much like the rust compiler itself. These releases would be clearly labeled as "NON OFFICIAL RELEASES" perhaps with versions like `17.0.0.dev-2023-01-22 **Describe alternatives you've considered** We could also try to run the official release process more frequently (every 2 weeks perhaps) -- given the voting process takes at least three days it will still be limited in how quickly it can be done **Additional context** See https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/2327 for prior discussion -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
