pepijnve commented on PR #16397: URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/16397#issuecomment-2971445102
Sorry to go a bit off topic for a sec, but there's some context I would like to add. I worked on API design of a commercial software library with tons of extension points for 10+ years where backwards compatibility of the public API was something we stuck to religiously because of the burden API breakage places on the entire user base. Doing that kind of work for an extended period of time makes you think three times about new API and all the hypothetical uses and abuses; perhaps a bit too much. Relevant question to this text and the project is what the project's stance is wrt API stability? Merging fast means you're likely to ship something a little bit too quickly every now and then. I'm not saying it's a bad strategy, just wondering how you balance the tension between stability and velocity. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@datafusion.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@datafusion.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: github-h...@datafusion.apache.org
