Re: Proposal: freeze Thrift starting with 2.1.0

[Chris Burroughs]

FWIW even for new development we have found thrift preferable to CQL. 
Others have have a different experience and that's cool.  It's certinaly 
made it less intimidating to new users when explaining Cassandra.

I'm very concerned at the sentiments in this thread about not testing or 
upgrading to 2.1 being a "dumb" idea.  The thing we value most from 
Cassandra is that it works.  Operability, stability, and robustness are 
by far the most important traits.  I can deal with wrapping APIs and 
transport layers.  Dealing with untested releases is much more complicated.