You're right, it has not been obvious from the ML alone that we were
this close to a RC, but it has been very clear on IRC. My apologies
for not being louder here too. (although anyone interested in
Cassandra dev really -should- be on irc.)
IMO it it better to have this under the site from the perspective of a
user trying to find the tarball he was reproducing a specific issue on
but that is my only reason to prefer one URL to another.
-Jonathan
On May 14, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
<[email protected]> wrote:
(dropping the users list from CC)
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Jonathan Ellis <[email protected]>
wrote:
Oops, fat-fingered the url:
http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/releases/cassandra-0.3-rc.tgz
Hi,
Although I understand this is not meant to be an official release, and
totally agree that getting early feedback is good, the way this is
presented is confusing.
The term "release candidate" and putting it under cassandra/releases
makes it appear as publishing this tarball is a project decision, but
I see no discussions on this dev list about putting this release
candidate out.
I'd be much more comfortable if you would move it under
http://people.apache.org/~jbellis/, for example, to make it clear that
you, as opposed to the Cassandra project, are providing a tarball for
people to test. Or use the "bleeding edge" link at
http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/#download, which points to
development snapshots.
As is now, the potential for confusion with an Apache release (or
release candidate) is too high IMO.
What do mentors think?
-- Bertrand (with my Incubator PMC member hat on)
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Jonathan Ellis
<[email protected]> wrote:
Short version: http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-0.3.0-rc.tgz
Long version:
http://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/05/cassandra-03-release-candidate-and.html
Release Candidate means "we fixed all the bugs we could find; help
us
find more so the release is even more solid." :)
I've created a 0.3 branch for bugfixes; trunk will now be for 0.4
development. I'll start to look at the patches I've been postponing
until the RC was out now; thanks for your patience, Jun and Sandeep.
-Jonathan
