Re: Roadmap for 4.0

> > I also don't see a place for minor releases as they exist today. It seems > like they are almost all the overhead of a major release with unnecessary > restrictions on what is possible. Yeah this, I've never heard of anything that we don't do in "minors", and it seems to me that everyone

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

If we have to decide on the date, we need to get confirmation on the following which I mentioned earlier. We dont want to freeze things and no one to make progress on 1. Who can sign up for fixing the tests(including upgrade tests). I don't think we can release without tests passing. We can still

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

Hi, What is the role of minor releases in Cassandra? I know that we have guarantees we make about minor releases that we don't make about major releases (is this summarized anywhere?), but is there anyone who actually thinks those guarantees are worth it vs having major releases on a shorter

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

One clarifying point, potentially trivia, but: On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Ben Bromhead wrote: > > We haven't seen any actual binding -1s yet on June 1, despite obvious > concerns and plenty of +1s > > Just to be clear: binding -1 votes are vetos for code changes, but

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

I agree that not releasing semi-regularly is not good for the project. I think our habit of releasing half working software is much worse though. Our testing/stability story is not iron clad. I really think the bar for releasing 4.0 should be that the people in this thread are running the code

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:35 AM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > Seriously, what's the rush to branch? Do we all love merging so much we > want to do a few more times just for the sake of merging? If nothing > diverges, there's nothing gained from the branch, and if it did diverge, we >

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

Huh, I was writing my response for quite a while and getting distracted so didn't see this, but yeah if I had a vote, this would obviously have it. On 11 April 2018 at 03:03, Jeff Jirsa wrote: > > > -- > Jeff Jirsa > > > On Apr 10, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Josh McKenzie

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

> > In thinking about this, what is stopping us from branching 4.0 a lot > sooner? Like now-ish? This will let folks start hacking on trunk with > new stuff, and things we've gotten close on can still go in 4.0 Agree with Jeff here that this is not necessary. The branch point should be the