[yt-dev] RFC: Staggered deprecation through 3.1 and 3.2

[Britton Smith]

What about a 3.0beta and then a stable 3.0 instead of 3.0 and 3.1?


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm +1 on this, particularly since I'm at fault for not pushing on the VR
> as much as I'd like to.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> One thing we really tried to do with 3.0 was break all the APIs we
>> thought we'd need to before release.  This included things like ds/pf,
>> index/hierarchy, the way data selections were made, etc.
>>
>> It's starting to become clear that we are approaching maturity at
>> different rates in these initiatives.  I am wondering if perhaps we
>> should de-couple the release from all of the API breakages, and
>> instead note which interfaces we know are going to change in the
>> future.
>>
>> Pragmatically, what this would mean is:
>>
>>  * Release a 3.0 with the old VR and halo finding interfaces
>>  * Release a 3.1 with either the new VR or the new halo finding (or both)
>>  * Do the same for 3.2
>>
>> This doesn't fit with the usual "major numbers are where APIs break"
>> philosophy that comes from semantic versioning, but I think from the
>> perspective of pragmatism, if we identify those sections of the code
>> that are *going* to change, and we pitch 3.0 as the first part of a
>> staged release of totally rewritten infrastructure, we can likely come
>> out okay.
>>
>> I'd like to put this out there for discussion.
>>
>> -Matt
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