grpc pre-releases

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Arpit Baldeva

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Feb 27, 2018, 12:48:34 AM2/27/18

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Hi,

What does a grpc pre-release mean? For example, what level of testing does it go through vs a release that is not marked pre-release? Can the api change between a pre-release vs release?

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Nathaniel Manista

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Feb 27, 2018, 11:29:45 AM2/27/18

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Arpit Baldeva <abal...@gmail.com> wrote:

What does a grpc pre-release mean?

More or less the same thing that "pre-release" or "release candidate" means throughout the rest of the software world - a "pre-release" is a software distribution that we think could very well be what we want an upcoming release to be, and we want to make it available to all users to hear whether or not they have any problems with it.

For example, what level of testing does it go through vs a release that is not marked pre-release?

Pre-releases go through all the same automated tests as proper releases on our side.

Can the api change between a pre-release vs release?

Since the point of a pre-release is to find and fix problems with an upcoming release, it's possible that if there's a problem in an API then the API will be changed or fixed between the pre-release and the release itself. But such changes are rare and minimal even when they do happen.