Stuff in the Cassandra world worth knowing about: - Cassandra 2.1.19 and 2.2.11 are out. 3.0.15 and 3.11.1 are voting, but should be out next week. - There's been a pretty lively discussion about experimental flags (especially for materialized views), if you somehow missed that (?!), can catch up on it here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d81a61da48e1b872d7599df4edfa8e244d34cbd591a18539f724796f@%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E - Sylvain suggests removing async read repair knobs https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13910 - editorializing: he has a pretty compelling point, and unless someone has a pretty convincing argument against it, it's likely to happen. If you really really really believe ASYNC read repair options need to stay, you should go view that ticket.
7 new contributors had their first commit land in the project during the month of September (+ early October): Stefano Ortolani Stavros Kontopoulos Sasatani Takenobu Romain GÉRARD Cormoran Vusal Ahmadoglu Achilleas Anagnostopoulos Jan Urbański and Jaydeepkumar Chovatia each had their 2nd commits during that period; always nice to see a follow-up contribution. Administrative type stuff: - It's been a year since the PMC last had an election for the chair; Nate McCall will continue to serve as PMC chair for another year and gets to shoulder the burden of filing lovely board reports every quarter. - The project (or rather, the PMC chair) files a report to the ASF every 3 months. These usually fly under the radar, but I'm going to try to point out when new ones land. The last one was August - you can find it here: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Cassandra.html. It noted, among other things, that Datastax's donation of cassandra-dtest distributed test suite made it through the incubator and into the project, and that the legal hurdles surrounding the RocksDB patent grant were cleared up (see also: pluggable storage conversations from last week's emails - this would have been a blocker, the FB folks really managed to work some magic on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303 ). - I'm personally making a list of open Github PRs that need to be closed (going to submit it to ASF Infra to manually close them for us). If anyone wants to help cultivate that list, please let me know (if you're not aware, github is a read-only mirror, so we can't merge PRs through the web UI, and we can't close them except via commit message) Stuff that could use a review: - There's a patch to fix the 'CREATE INDEX' string representation (to add IF NOT EXISTS) from a new contributor: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13935 - The big java9 patch: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9608 - Build.xml cleanup: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13724 - Patch to allow specifying sources for rebuild: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13841 - Removing an obsolete assert so graphite reporter works: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13840 - Making sure all FastThreadLocals are cleaned up properly: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13838 Until next week, - Jeff
