On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:02 AM Austin Bennett <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we currently maintain a finer grained list of compatibility between > execution/runner versions and beam versions? Is this only really a concern > with recent Flink (sounded like at least Spark jump, too)? I see the > capability matrix: > https://beam.apache.org/documentation/runners/capability-matrix/, but > some sort of compatibility between runner versions with beam releases might > be useful. > > I see compatibility matrix as far as beam features, but not for underlying > runners. Ex: something like this would save a user trying to get Beam > working on recent Flink 1.6 and then subsequently hitting a (potentially > not well documented) wall given known issues. > +1. I was bitten by this as well. I don't know if it's worth having a compatibility matrix for each version (as the overlap is likely to be all or nothing in most cases), but it should be prominently displayed here and elsewhere. Want to send out a PR?
