Hi all, I would like to propose a monthly preview for our dev branch, e.g., Spark 4.1.0 preview1 ... previewN.
Per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52176, we have minimized the manual work so I think it's realistic to propose this. Couple of notes: - The manual steps it requires would be to run GitHub Actions twice for RC and publishing, and summarizing the vote result. There IS a way to even automate this but it needs more work to comply with ASF policy. I would like to stick to this minimal manual work for now. - For now, I would like to volunteer to be responsible for the preview releases and incrementally improve our release policy guidelines ( https://spark.apache.org/release-process.html) as well once this SPIP passes. - The individual release would be, I suspect, about the first week in each month but I would like to avoid setting the explicit date in the SPIP so it makes us less pressured. JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52625 SPIP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ysJ16z_NUfIdsYqq1Qq7k8htmMWFpo8kXqX-8lGzCGc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.89yty49abp67
