Hi devs, This is initial post to separate out discussion topic from vote thread, and continue discussing.
Background of the topic: 1. Releasing Storm requires huge bootstrapping, and normally takes several months to release bugfix version. Note that it is not minor version... Minor version is released per near a year. Connectors are maintained with same release cadence, which makes connectors also long period to release, whether it is (implicitly) beta or not. 2. Most of the change for connectors are not related to Storm core. It tends to be compatible with all release versions with same major version. 3. (IMHO) We have too many connectors which we even can't maintain actively. For example, ES connector couldn't support ES higher than 1.x. 4. Connectors are having same release version for Storm core, hence newly added connector will have at least 1.x version which no one would think it is beta. Downside: 1. Detached connectors can be easy to be forgotten. (easier than current) 2. Connectors may have hard time if we bring backward incompatible change to Storm core. We may remedy this with having supported version range for specific connector version. Please put your opinion regarding topic. You're encouraged to copy your previous post in vote thread which helps to centralize opinions in current thread. Thanks, Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
