+1 for deprecating and pointing people to Gelly

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote:

>
> On 10 Mar 2015, at 22:02, Vasiliki Kalavri <vasilikikala...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like your opinion on whether we should deprecate the Spargel API
> in
> > 0.9.
> >
> > Gelly doesn't depend on Spargel, it actually contains it -- we have
> copied
> > the relevant classes over. I think it would be a good idea to deprecate
> > Spargel in 0.9, so that we can inform existing Spargel users that we'll
> > eventually remove it.
>
> +1. I think it's OK as we want all Graph API users to go against Gelly in
> the future. I don't even think that many people are using Spargel as we
> never really promoted it heavily.
>
> > Also, I think the fact that we have 2 Graph APIs in the documentation
> might
> > be a bit confusing for newcomers. One might wonder why do we have them
> both
> > and when shall they use one over the other?
> >
> > It might be a good idea to add a note in the Spargel guide that would
> > suggest to use Gelly instead and a corresponding note in the beginning of
> > the Gelly guide to explain that Spargel is part of Gelly now. Or maybe a
> > "Gelly or Spargel?" section. What do you think?
>
> +1, but I wouldn't hint to that prominently in the beginning. I think a
> section about Spargel at the end, where you explain that it was our initial
> take at graph processing and a link the respective (old) docs should be
> fine for people who have already used it.

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