Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/908#discussion_r13168831
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@@ -92,6 +92,32 @@ GraphX in Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} contains one
user-facing interface change
[EdgeRDD]: api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.graphx.EdgeRDD
+## Workaround for `Graph.partitionBy` in Spark 1.0.0
+<a name="partitionBy_workaround"></a>
+
+The [`Graph.partitionBy`][Graph.partitionBy] operator allows users to
choose the graph partitioning strategy, but due to
[SPARK-1931](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1931), this method is
broken in Spark 1.0.0. We encourage users to build the latest version of Spark
from the master branch, which contains a fix. Alternatively, a workaround is to
partition the edges before constructing the graph, as follows:
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I'd actually suggest they build spark from the 1.0 branch if this fix is
the main thing they are interested in.
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