Re: [DISCUSSION] Dependency management in our first alpha release

2023-08-23 Thread Abe Ratnofsky
> I also want to hear if Abe still has concerns about not following deprecation > process here. I support removing the library on an expedited schedule, rather than waiting for a full major of deprecation. We still have a large surface for metrics integrations, and users who depended on metrics

Re: [DISCUSSION] Dependency management in our first alpha release

2023-08-23 Thread Maxim Muzafarov
Hello everyone, CASSANDRA-14667 when the 3.11.5 driver version with shaded metrics dependencies is released, it will be fairly easy to handle the cassandra-related part and get rid of the old metrics version in Cassandra itself (the number of changes to the Cassandra part is also minimal ~10 line

Re: [DISCUSSION] Dependency management in our first alpha release

2023-08-23 Thread C. Scott Andreas
Given how early we are in the cycle with even the branch only recently cut (and how much is not yet present in the alpha), housecleaning seems like a positive impulse.On Aug 23, 2023, at 7:28 AM, Ekaterina Dimitrova wrote:Hi everyone,I wanted to clarify something. I understood dependency updat

[DISCUSSION] Dependency management in our first alpha release

2023-08-23 Thread Ekaterina Dimitrova
Hi everyone, I wanted to clarify something. I understood dependency updates/cleaning can also be done in an alpha release if they lead to minimal user-facing changes, if any at all. I agree with that in our first 5.0 alpha release because we are not yet feature-complete. It is a good time for peop