+1 for moving this discussion to a proactive new (alpha/beta) release of Apache Spark 2.0!
> On 06 Jun 2016, at 20:25, Ovidiu Cristian Marcu <oma...@inria.fr> wrote: > > Any chance to start preparing a new alpha/beta release for 2.0 this month or > the preview will be pushed to maven and considered an alpha? > > Sent from TypeApp <http://www.typeapp.com/r> > > On Jun 6, 2016, at 20:12, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com > <mailto:matei.zaha...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Is there any way to remove artifacts from Maven Central? Maybe that would > help clean these things up long-term, though it would create problems for > users who for some reason decide to rely on these previews. > > In any case, if people are *really* concerned about this, we should just put > it there. My thought was that it's better for users to do something special > to link to this release (e.g. add a reference to the staging repo) so that > they are more likely to know that it's a special, unstable thing. Same thing > they do to use snapshots. > > Matei > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com > <mailto:luckbr1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com > <mailto:m...@clearstorydata.com>> wrote: > I still don't know where this "severely compromised builds of limited > usefulness" thing comes from? what's so bad? You didn't veto its > release, after all. > > I simply mean that it was released with the knowledge that there are still > significant bugs in the preview that definitely would warrant a veto if this > were intended to be on a par with other releases. There have been repeated > announcements to that effect, but developers finding the preview artifacts on > Maven Central months from now may well not also see those announcements and > related discussion. The artifacts will be very stale and no longer useful > for their limited testing purpose, but will persist in the repository. > > > A few months from now, why would a developer choose a preview, alpha, beta > compared to the GA 2.0 release ? > > As for the being stale part, this is true for every release anyone put out > there. > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 <http://twitter.com/lresende1975> > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ <http://lresende.blogspot.com/>
