Re: Managing outdated dependencies

2018-06-06 Thread Chamikara Jayalath
Since there seems to be a general agreement on these I think we can start a vote. Possible post-vote tasks include following. * Generate human readable reports on status of Beam dependencies. * Automatically create JIRAs for significantly outdated dependencies based on above reports. * Copy compo

Re: Managing outdated dependencies

2018-06-05 Thread Chamikara Jayalath
Thanks everybody for all the comments in the doc. Based on the reaction so far, seems like community generally agrees to introducing policies around managing dependencies. I updated the suggested policies based on comments and rewrote them in a more concise form and added room for more human inter

Re: Managing outdated dependencies

2018-06-01 Thread Chamikara Jayalath
Thanks. I left these ideas bit detailed for clarification. I'll rewrite them in a more concise form when we have enough feedback. - Cham On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:58 PM Kenneth Knowles wrote: > This does seem really useful. I appreciate the detailed explanations. If > we formalize it into policy

Re: Managing outdated dependencies

2018-06-01 Thread Kenneth Knowles
This does seem really useful. I appreciate the detailed explanations. If we formalize it into policy, I'd love to make it a bit more concise, and with appropriate room for human contestation of the guidelines. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:47 PM Scott Wegner wrote: > Thanks Cham. Overall this seems l

Re: Managing outdated dependencies

2018-06-01 Thread Scott Wegner
Thanks Cham. Overall this seems like a useful hygiene improvement for the project. I've left some comments in the doc. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:48 AM Chamikara Jayalath wrote: > Hi All, > > I've copied ideas proposed in the doc below for more visibility. Any > comments are welcome. > > > > * -

Re: Managing outdated dependencies

2018-06-01 Thread Chamikara Jayalath
Hi All, I've copied ideas proposed in the doc below for more visibility. Any comments are welcome. * - Human readable per-SDK reports on status of Beam dependencies are generated weekly and shared with the Beam community through the dev list. These reports should be concise and should highlight

Managing outdated dependencies

2018-05-31 Thread Chamikara Jayalath
Hi All, We recently ran into many issues due to Beam dependencies being significantly out of date. For example see [1], [2], and [3]. Yifan Zou recently introduced a proposal [4] that would allow us to identify outdated dependencies. But to really make sure that this helps the Beam project and co