In my opinion, if a certain feature is experimental, we should simply mention it in the release notes and/or documentation. I would not create a separate beta release just for a certain feature.
D. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@gridgain.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think that features like LINQ and ODBC need the same approach > as IDEA EAP. IntelliJ has EAP because new features may have bugs > or usability issues. With LINQ and ODBC our main concern are not bugs, > but unsupported use cases that we did not think of. Known use cases > are covered with tests. > > Beta releases may not get enough attention to gather feedback. > I think we should release these features right away and gradually add > support > for missing use cases, if any emerge. We are not going to change API or > break compatibility while adding these things in future. > > Furthermore, LINQ is only a usability feature. Users can always switch to > raw SQL > if something can't be expressed in LINQ. > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Vladimir Ozerov <voze...@gridgain.com> > wrote: > > > Igniters, > > > > I want to circulate again an idea of "betas" for particular product > > features. > > > > For now we have several pretty cool features which are to be released > soon: > > ODBC driver and LINQ in .NET. Features like this include potentially > > infinite amount of use cases and of course we cannot test all of them. I > > believe things like this should go through extended release cycle so that > > we have time to get user's feedback before officially announcing them. It > > could be betas, early previews, whatever. > > > > The main idea is that we have a time window to obtain a feedback and > > stabilize the feature. > > > > This is a common practice for more or less big products. E.g. see > Hazelcast > > python client [1] and Intellij IDEA EAP 16 [2]. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hazelcast-python-client > > [2] https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IDEA+16+EAP > > > > Vladimir. > > >
