Also, it’s helpful that you are publishing the transition plan up-front. Do you plan to include it in the release notes, or perhaps reference a JIRA case? Users of avatica-go may not be subscribed to this list, but they still need to be aware of the transition plan.
> On Aug 28, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Francis Chuang <francischu...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to start a vote for Avatica-Go 3.1.0 over the next few days. > > Some key things I'd like to address in this release: > > - Go 1.11 was released a few days ago and now includes support for dependency > management using "Go modules" (done). > > Some history: > > The Go community released a package manager called Dep[1] in the middle of > 2017. Dep is designed to be very similar to npm, composer and cargo. > Initially, this was poised to be the official package manager for Go. At the > beginning of 2018, Russ Cox (a member of the Go team) announced vgo (aka Go > modules) which is a different approach to package management for Go. While > there was some push back from the community working on Dep, Go modules is now > officially in the Go tool chain and will be the package management solution > of choice for all Go projects. > > Transition plan for Avatica-Go: > > Avatica-Go currently uses Dep and has the Gopkg.toml and Gopkg.lock files > committed. In terms of the Go team, the current (1.11) and last (1.10) > versions of Go are the actively maintained versions. Since Go 1.10 does not > have support for Go modules (but there was a patch release to support Go > modules import paths to work with libraries using Go modules), we need to > keep Dep in place for now. I have added support for Go modules (go.mod and > go.sum files) to support people using Go modules for package management. When > Go 1.12 is released in early 2019, I will remove support for Dep and all > users will be required to use Go modules. This will allow us to simplify the > configuration for continuous integration and the documentation for using and > releasing Avatica-Go. > > - Update dependencies (done). > > - Test against Avatica 1.12 and Phoenix 5.0.0 (in progress). > > - Update documentation (in progress). > > This release should be pretty routine and there should be no significant > changes. I will send another email to start a vote in the next few days. If > you have any comments or questions, please let me know. > > Francis > > [1] https://github.com/golang/dep/releases >
