Great - breaking changes make things difficult for some, but also help bring about needed change. The proposal seems like a decent way forward!
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:26 AM Evan Rusackas <e...@preset.io.invalid> wrote: > Hi all, > > Superset 3.0 has been a long time coming, and part of the discussion has > been around how to organize related development activities. The Release > Strategy group (context on working groups here [1]) has come up with an > process that seems like it ought to work with minimal friction, so this > email serves to kick off the initial steps. > > We are seeking lazy consensus on the following plan of action: > > Breaking change window: We will open the `master` branch to the merging of > PRs which constitute breaking changes, starting March 15th. This window > will close on April 15th, unless shortened or extended by additional lazy > consensus. After this window, the repo will go back to normal semver > standards [2] (i.e. breaking changes not allowed). > > Adding/tracking change proposals: Numerous changes (breaking or otherwise) > have been proposed on a Github Discussion [3] and copied over to the 3.0 > Project Board [4]. Additional changes may be added to the board by > committers/PMC members over time, and others may continue to propose them > on the discussion thread. > > Approving change proposals: The process for approving changes will also > follow the lazy consensus approach. I (and/or other PMC members) will > send one or more email threads with a list of changes, with each list item > subject to lazy consensus. Then these items may be ratified or denied > individually. Their progress in the consensus process process will be > tracked on the project board. > > Please note that approval of a change does not guarantee that the change > will be included in the release. Any approved change which is not merged > within the breaking change window (or any non-breaking change not included > prior to the release cut) will remain “ratified” and carried forward for > possible inclusion in the next major release. > > The first wave of change proposals will be sent to this list for > consideration upon reaching consensus on the above approach (i.e. in three > days, if all goes well here). > > We will be discusing further details of this (by then in-flight) process > at the next Town Hall meeting (see agenda [5] and community calendar [6]) > for any interested parties. > > Thank you for your consideration, > > Evan Rusackas > Apache Superset PMC • superset.apache.org > Preset, Inc • preset.io > > [1] https://preset.io/blog/the-superset-operational-model-wants-you/ > [2] https://preset.io/blog/2021-2-25-superset-versioning/ > [3] https://github.com/apache/superset/discussions/19597 > [4] https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/201/views/1 > [5] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNtQhrJLCN59tc6FDI2iq4W-aoS6CISCo6S7hHgGMpM/edit# > [6] > https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/2?cid=c3VwZXJzZXQuY29tbWl0dGVyc0BnbWFpbC5jb20 > > >
