Re: [geomesa-users] Branching Model + listserv

[Chris Eichelberger <cne1x@xxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

Yes, there is a developers' list analogous to this users' list:
  https://locationtech.org/mailman/listinfo/geomesa-dev

It is archived, searchable the same way.

I agree that all 1.2.x versions should be read/write compatible, but in
some sense, I think that will be a consequence of our versioning, not a
consequence of our discipline:  As soon as we fail to be compatible,
semver will have us bump at the major version level.

In any event, I agree that this is a good discussion to conduct in a
public forum.

Thanks!

Sincerely,
  -- Chris


On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 12:40 -0400, Andrew Hulbert wrote:
> Since we're talking about releases...I was wondering what people thought 
> about changing out branching model to create a maintenance branch for 
> the 1.2.x series and then bump master to 1.3.0 for new features. For 
> example, new datastores like dynamo or the native API would go onto the 
> 1.3 master and we'd fixate things at 1.2.x and actually follow the 
> semantic versioning guidelines since technically 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, etc 
> should only be bug fixes.
> 
> The ideal goal is to have all 1.2.x clients work with 1.2.x server 
> iterators and plugins. Granted thats tough, but as we mature I think its 
> a good goal. Accumulo guarantees that the 1.6.x series are all binary 
> compatible with each other (and also don't introduce any breaking 
> changes on the server side) so you're original client at 1.6.0 works 
> with a 1.6.5 cluster.
> 
> Also, do we have a geomesa-dev listserv and archives? We should probably 
> try to keep technical discussion on there as much as possible to show 
> that we are active on the user lists and discussion forums as an open 
> source project! Granted many devs are at CCRI, but the LT listserv 
> should be more visible to people who are interested in the project. 
> Also, since many clients are internal to CCRI it means that bugs and 
> questions will be googleable(?) assuming we have a good crawlable(?) 
> archive.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Andrew
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