[GitHub] [arrow-rs] alamb commented on issue #1120: More frequent major releases for arrow-rs

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alamb commented on issue #1120:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1120#issuecomment-1005188297


   In conclusion, from my perspective maintaining an active release branch with stable patches and major releases every 3 months doesn't provide enough value for the cost 
   
   The cost is borne both by me actually creating the releases as well as users who are slowed down picking up updates for dependent libraries (the latest version of tonic, for example) or waiting for their changes to be released.
   
   So unless there is significant pushback (ideally along with a volunteer to help maintain a stable branch) I will plan to start doing releases for arrow-rs directly from master as proposed on [1] , starting with arrow-rs 7.0 (will make a candidate later this week and hope to release early next)
   
   I think the only downside to this will be the oft discussed "arrow will end up with versions 22.0.0 rather than version 0.22.0" which may lead to confusion about its relative stability. We can add some documentation about this and adjust if it causes too much confusion.


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