Spark MLlib, GraphX 2.2 QA umbrella

This JIRA lists tasks for the next Spark release's QA period for MLlib and GraphX. SparkR is separate: SPARK-20508.

The list below gives an overview of what is involved, and the corresponding JIRA issues are linked below that.

API

• Check binary API compatibility for Scala/Java
• Audit new public APIs (from the generated html doc)
  • Scala
  • Java compatibility
  • Python coverage
• Check Experimental, DeveloperApi tags

Algorithms and performance

• Performance tests

Documentation and example code

• For new algorithms, create JIRAs for updating the user guide sections & examples
• Update Programming Guide
• Update website