Hi Jeremy, I'm not a Cassandra Dev, but I am building a Datanucleus plugin for it >From a consumer perspective, I would really appreciate a couple of things.
Javadoc. As you said, I don't need to know every minute detail on the internal workings of Cassandra. However having a basic understanding of how all the classes communicate would help me with optimizing joins and secondary indexes (manually created) in my plugin. Upload artifacts to maven repository. If possible, please start deploying the binaries and all the dependent jars to the maven repository. Currently I have to upload them all manually. This works well for developing my plugin within my company. However, when I'm done building it I will be releasing it as open source. It is very difficult for users to get up and running since they have to manually install all the jars to run the unit and integration tests for the plugin. Thanks, Todd On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 18:46 -0500, Jeremy Hanna wrote: > I was just wondering if there would be interest in making JavaDocs for > Cassandra available for each release that comes out. I realize that it's not > a lib that people should just use. However, it might be nice to have for > certain things, like the Hadoop hooks - ColumnFamilyRecordReader et al. It > might also help people get up to speed when they want to contribute to > Cassandra as devs. > > Maybe the general JavaDocs could be linked just from the How To Contribute > area of the documentation. Then for the hadoop stuff and things like that, > the specific class JavaDocs could be linked directly from the pages > explaining Hadoop functionality. > > Anyway, any interest/feedback? > > I'm not sure how this is done for other apache projects or if it's a pain to > do for every release. I could help out if needed. > > Jeremy
