Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-18 Thread Anuj Wadehra
HAPPY to see that Apache Cassandra web site has been updated to include EOL information :)  Thanks !!! I have some queries on the updated content: 1. Earlier, Apache web site always used to show 2 Cassandra versions - one which is "most stable" (production-ready) and other for development use.

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-16 Thread Anuj Wadehra
I was not referring to Enterprise support here. When I said Open source "product" by mistake, I was just referring to some other Apache open source projects like Apache Cassandra where you get EOL announcements, info etc on the main Apache web site. I think all four points are very relevant in c

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-16 Thread Michael Kjellman
Correct, this is an open source project. If you want a Enterprise support story Datastax has an Enterprise option for you. > On Jan 16, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Anuj Wadehra wrote: > > Hi Jonathan > > It would be really nice if you could share your thoughts on the four points > raised regarding

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-16 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Hi Jonathan It would be really nice if you could share your thoughts on the four points raised regarding the Cassandra EOL process. I think similar things happen for other open source products and it would be really nice if we could streamline such things for Apache Cassandra. ThanksAnuj Sent

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
4.0 will be an ordinary tick-tock release after 3.11, but we will be sunsetting deprecated features like Thrift so bumping the major version seems appropriate. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > Thanks, Jonathan. The end-of-life (EOL) question is still dangling out > there

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Jack Krupansky
Thanks, Jonathan. The end-of-life (EOL) question is still dangling out there - when does 3.x go off support, after 3.x+3 or six months after 4.0? Or... six months after 5.0? -- Jack Krupansky On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jack Krupans

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > Jonathan, just to complete the list, it would be help to state: > > 3.1.x will be maintained until > 3.2 will be maintained until > One of the confusing things about tick tock is that we're stuck with numbers that look like the old ones

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Jack Krupansky
Jonathan, just to complete the list, it would be help to state: 3.1.x will be maintained until 3.2 will be maintained until And in general, 3.x (x != 0) will be maintained until (and does x even vs. odd affect the rule) And what exactly is the general rule/criteria for when 3.x will be conside

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the crisp communication regarding the tick tock release & EOL. I think its worth considering some points regarding EOL policy and it would be great if you can share your thoughts on below points: 1.  EOL of a release should be based on "most stable"/"production ready" vers

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Hi Maciek, First let's talk about the tick-tock series, currently 3.x. This is pretty simple: outside of the regular monthly releases, we will release fixes for critical bugs against the most recent bugfix release, the way we did recently with 3.1.1 for CASSANDRA-10822 [1]. No older tick-tock re

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Jack Krupansky
Mark, what would the policy dictate if the bug is in a feature that was introduced in 3.x and the feature wasn't in 3.0 and the current release is 3.x+k where k is greater than two - technically 3.x is no longer supported, so does that mean no backporting of the fix and only 3.x+k+1 would get the b

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-14 Thread Mark Dewey
Let's do a couple examples: 1. Current release: 3.4.0, bug found in 3.1.0 that also exists in subsequent versions; the bug fix will be ported back to 3.0.x and 3.5.0. 2. Current release 3.3.0, bug found in 3.3.0; the bug fix will be ported back to 3.0.x and 3.4.0. In rare cases, a 3.3.

Re: Versioning policy?

2016-01-13 Thread Maciek Sakrejda
Can anyone chime in here? We're getting ready to run a decent number of nodes; we'd like to have a better idea of what to expect with respect to patching and upgrading. A clear versioning policy like the one laid out by Postgres would be very helpful. ​