If we get the 1.34.0 out a bit sooner than usual I guess this will be good enough for Drill. If the others agree I can try to prepare an RC during next week. WDYT ?
Best, Stamatis On Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 6:13 PM Alessandro Solimando < [email protected]> wrote: > The second option Benchao mentions is what Hive currently does as well. > > Best regards, > Alessandro > > On Sat 4 Mar 2023, 13:19 Benchao Li, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Charles, > > > > Thank for reaching out! > > > > IIRC, the idea of releasing bugfix version has been brought up in the > past, > > but I couldn't find the discussion (in Jira and dev ML). > > > > I'd like to share my understanding why we chose not to release bug fix > > versions, please correct me if I'm wrong, > > - Calcite has many bug fixes that span multi versions (even more that 10 > > versions), then only keeping several (such as 3) bug fix releases does > not > > solve all these problems. > > - Actually we usually do not distinguish too much between "bugfix" and > "new > > feature", so maintaining bug fix releases is not that easy. > > - Calcite lacks reviewers and also release managers, only keeping linear > > releasing in rhythm could save us some efforts. > > > > For regressions, I agree that this hurts downstream projects. For such > > cases, there are two approaches come into my mind: > > - We can release a new version quickly than usual. > > - The projects that need the fix/feature before our next scheduled > release, > > they could copy these files into their projects, as we already did in > > Flink[1]. They could remove these files once they adopt the new release > of > > Calcite. > > > > I hope this helps. > > > > [1] > > > > > https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/master/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite > > > > > > Charles Givre <[email protected]> 于2023年3月2日周四 06:22写道： > > > > > Hello Calcite Devs, > > > I wanted to thank everyone for the recent release of Calcite 1.33. I > am > > > the PMC Chair for Apache Drill and we just released Drill 1.21[0] which > > is > > > now using the latest version of Calcite instead of our 2-3 year old > fork! > > > > > > However, we encountered a small issue with Calcite 1.33 that does not > > > affect just Drill. Specifically, there was a regression which was > caused > > > by CALCITE-5447[1] which effectively broke the DATE_TRUNC function. > The > > > bugfix has been fixed and merged in CALCITE-5522[2]. > > > > > > In any event, given that this function is fairly important and the > > lengthy > > > release schedules of both Drill and Calcite, I wanted to ask whether > the > > > Calcite might consider doing a quick bugfix release with this and any > > other > > > regressions that may have popped up in 1.33 and have since been fixed. > > > > > > Thank you very much for all your work! > > > Best, > > > -- Charles > > > > > > > > > [0]: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/drill-site/blob/master/blog/_posts/en/2023-02-21-drill-1.21.0-released.md > > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5447 > > > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5522 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Best, > > Benchao Li > > >
