Hey All, Thanks for everyone who participated in this thread. I've distilled feedback based on the discussion and wanted to summarize the conclusions:
- People seem universally +1 on semantic versioning in general. - People seem universally +1 on having a public merge windows for releases. - People seem universally +1 on a policy of having associated JIRA's with features. - Everyone believes link-level compatiblity should be the goal. Some people think we should outright promise it now. Others thing we should either not promise it or promise it later. --> Compromise: let's do one minor release 1.0->1.1 to convince ourselves this is possible (some issues with Scala traits will make this tricky). Then we can codify it in writing. I've created SPARK-1069 [1] to clearly establish that this is the goal for 1.X family of releases. - Some people think we should add particular features before having 1.0. --> Version 1.X indicates API stability rather than a feature set; this was clarified. --> That said, people still have several months to work on features if they really want to get them in for this release. I'm going to integrate this feedback and post a tentative version of the release guidelines to the wiki. With all this said, I would like to move the master version to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT as the main concerns with this have been addressed and clarified. This merely represents a tentative consensus and the release is still subject to a formal vote amongst PMC members. [1] https://spark-project.atlassian.net/browse/SPARK-1069 - Patrick
