On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@apache.org> wrote: > Cassandra is out of incubation and I am no longer on the PMC ...but this > a little concerning. > > I know this discussion is all about good internal design but - for the sake > of the community - isn't there a way this fork could be avoided? I don't have > the feeling this is about the work involved implementing it - but > rather the lack > of direction or consensus how to implement it.
I am disappointed to see this move by an ASF committer [Johann] rather than working within the consensus process. But if it's really temporary, then I suppose it's not the end of the world. On the other hand, if the patch authors never bring it up to the standards of the rest of the project, well, then it's a good thing we didn't commit it under a "commit now, fix later" process. > Maybe this fork could be prevented if committers could give the guidance? While it's true -- and unfortunate, mea culpa -- that the rest of us weren't involved enough at the beginning of the counter design process, that's not the case any more. The people most familiar with this patch besides its authors are myself and Sylvain, and we have said (starting a month ago) that building on the Clock structure looks like the wrong approach. That's a big change to the patch, so it's understandable that this is painful for the authors. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
