First, check out this graph: http://i.imgur.com/cEx3jOo.png
More issues were marked resolved in the past 30 days than were opened, which is a testament to the fact that a lot of people are doing a lot of work. Some of those are features, some are bugs, some are JIRA cleanup, but green is over red for the first time in a long time. Second: A number of people have removed themselves as reviewers of open issues, and this is often a natural thing as people de-clutter their boards, especially when old tickets linger and aren't updated. If you have a ticket you think is ready for review, and someone just unassigned themselves as a reviewer, make some noise here - ask for a review. Third: We committed the circle.yml, and it's now really easy to run unit tests using CircleCI - link your github account to circle ( https://circleci.com/signup/ ) and you'll see build status of all your branches ( https://github.com/jeffjirsa/cassandra/commits/trunk ). This is free - if you're a normal casual developer, the free plan will be MORE THAN ENOUGH for you to test occasional branches. There's already been some iteration on the yml config to improve it, and more is in flight, overall I'm pretty optimistic about this as a viable CassCI replacement. We have a travis config as well, not yet committed because we haven't really tested it - if anyone loves travis and wants to +1 the yaml, feel free to check out https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13388 Fourth: I'm not linking any tickets this week (I got busy, I have no idea what's actually new and interesting, sorry), but if you're looking for weekend fun, here's a JIRA link for Patch-Available and no reviewer: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11138?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20AND%20status%20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20Reviewer%20in%20(EMPTY)%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC And here's one for unresolved critical issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13162?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20and%20priority%20%3D%20Critical%20and%20status%20%3D%20Open%20order%20by%20createdDate%20desc And here's a fun link on how to write docs without having to use git or anything else: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/doc/source/development/documentation.rst Finally, nobody's found time to answer those grad students' questions on thread interaction: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70ae332f54676352755bcb421b66a56fe27e296f8828eff26727bb58@%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E . - Jeff
