Re: [Discussion] Arrow-rs minor and patch releases

2022-09-08 Thread Andrew Lamb
This is a great discussion to have. Thank you for raising it. We actually used to do fewer major releases and more minor releases (which was done by backporting API compatible changes to an active_release branch). However this took significant maintainer time (mostly my own, as I recall), though i

[Discussion] Arrow-rs minor and patch releases

2022-09-08 Thread Ian Joiner
Hi, Currently we have 2 major releases for arrow-rs and arrow-datafusion per month. What then happens is that API breaking changes in Arrow will necessarily require Datafusion to be modified ASAP for compatibility. Then the changes in Datafusion will necessarily require Ballista to be modified. I