Jason has asked for review and feedback many times. Maybe be constructive and review his code instead of just complaining (once again)?
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would say start with a mindset like 'people will run this in production' > not like 'why would you expect this to work'. > > Now how does this logic effect feature develement? Maybe use gossip 2.0 as > an example. > > I will play my given debby downer role. I could imagine 1 or 2 dtests and > the logic of 'dont expect it to work' unleash 4.0 onto hords of nubes with > twitter announce of the release let bugs trickle in. > > One could also do something comprehensive like test on clusters of 2 to > 1000 nodes. Test with jepsen to see what happens during partitions, inject > things like jvm pauses and account for behaivor. Log convergence times > after given events. > > Take a stand and say look "we engineered and beat the crap out of this > feature. I deployed this release feature at my company and eat my dogfood. > You are not my crash test dummy." > > >> On Saturday, November 19, 2016, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Any proposal to solve the problem you describe? >> >> -- >> Jeff Jirsa >> >> >>> On Nov 19, 2016, at 8:50 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>> >>> This is especially relevant if people wish to focus on removing things. >>> >>> For example, gossip 2.0 sounds great, but seems geared toward huge >> clusters >>> which is not likely a majority of users. For those with a 20 node cluster >>> are the indirect benefits woth it? >>> >>> Also there seems to be a first push to remove things like compact storage >>> or thrift. Fine great. But what is the realistic update path for someone. >>> If the big players are running 2.1 and maintaining backports, the average >>> shop without a dedicated team is going to be stuck saying (great features >>> in 4.0 that improve performance, i would probably switch but its not >> stable >>> and we have that one compact storage cf and who knows what is going to >>> happen performance wise when) >>> >>> We really need to lose this realease wont be stable for 6 minor versions >>> concept. >>> >>> On Saturday, November 19, 2016, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, November 18, 2016, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com >> <javascript:;> >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com >>>> <javascript:;>');>> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> We should assume that we’re ditching tick/tock. I’ll post a thread on >>>>> 4.0-and-beyond here in a few minutes. >>>>> >>>>> The advantage of a prod release every 6 months is fewer incentive to >> push >>>>> unfinished work into a release. >>>>> The disadvantage of a prod release every 6 months is then we either >> have >>>>> a very short lifespan per-release, or we have to maintain lots of >> active >>>>> releases. >>>>> >>>>> 2.1 has been out for over 2 years, and a lot of people (including us) >> are >>>>> running it in prod – if we have a release every 6 months, that means >> we’d >>>>> be supporting 4+ releases at a time, just to keep parity with what we >> have >>>>> now? Maybe that’s ok, if we’re very selective about ‘support’ for 2+ >> year >>>>> old branches. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 11/18/16, 3:10 PM, "beggles...@apple.com <javascript:;> on behalf >> of Blake >>>>> Eggleston" <beggles...@apple.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> While stability is important if we push back large "core" changes >>>>> until later we're just setting ourselves up to face the same issues >> later on >>>>>> >>>>>> In theory, yes. In practice, when incomplete features are earmarked >> for >>>>> a certain release, those features are often rushed out, and not always >>>>> fully baked. >>>>>> >>>>>> In any case, I don’t think it makes sense to spend too much time >>>>> planning what goes into 4.0, and what goes into the next major release >> with >>>>> so many release strategy related decisions still up in the air. Are we >>>>> going to ditch tick-tock? If so, what will it’s replacement look like? >>>>> Specifically, when will the next “production” release happen? Without >>>>> knowing that, it's hard to say if something should go in 4.0, or 4.5, >> or >>>>> 5.0, or whatever. >>>>>> >>>>>> The reason I suggested a production release every 6 months is because >>>>> (in my mind) it’s frequent enough that people won’t be tempted to rush >>>>> features to hit a given release, but not so frequent that it’s not >>>>> practical to support. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if some of >> these >>>>> tickets didn’t make it into 4.0, because 4.5 would fine. >>>>>> >>>>>> On November 18, 2016 at 1:57:21 PM, kurt Greaves ( >> k...@instaclustr.com <javascript:;>) >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 18 November 2016 at 18:25, Jason Brown <jasedbr...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> #11559 (enhanced node representation) - decided it's *not* something >> we >>>>>>> need wrt #7544 storage port configurable per node, so we are punting >> on >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> #12344 - Forward writes to replacement node with same address during >>>>> replace >>>>>> depends on #11559. To be honest I'd say #12344 is pretty important, >>>>>> otherwise it makes it difficult to replace nodes without potentially >>>>>> requiring client code/configuration changes. It would be nice to get >>>>> #12344 >>>>>> in for 4.0. It's marked as an improvement but I'd consider it a bug >> and >>>>>> thus think it could be included in a later minor release. >>>>>> >>>>>> Introducing all of these in a single release seems pretty risky. I >> think >>>>> it >>>>>>> would be safer to spread these out over a few 4.x releases (as >> they’re >>>>>>> finished) and give them time to stabilize before including them in an >>>>> LTS >>>>>>> release. The downside would be having to maintain backwards >>>>> compatibility >>>>>>> across the 4.x versions, but that seems preferable to delaying the >>>>> release >>>>>>> of 4.0 to include these, and having another big bang release. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't think anyone expects 4.0.0 to be stable. It's a major version >>>>>> change with lots of new features; in the production world people don't >>>>>> normally move to a new major version until it has been out for quite >> some >>>>>> time and several minor releases have passed. Really, most people are >> only >>>>>> migrating to 3.0.x now. While stability is important if we push back >>>>> large >>>>>> "core" changes until later we're just setting ourselves up to face the >>>>> same >>>>>> issues later on. There should be enough uptake on the early releases >> of >>>>> 4.0 >>>>>> from new users to help test and get it to a production-ready state. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Kurt Greaves >>>>>> k...@instaclustr.com <javascript:;> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I don't think anyone expects 4.0.0 to be stable >>>> >>>> Someone previously described 3.0 as the "break everything release". >>>> >>>> We know that many people are still 2.1 and 3.0. Cassandra will always be >>>> maintaining 3 or 4 active branches and have adoption issues if releases >> are >>>> not stable and usable. >>>> >>>> Being that cassandra was 1.0 years ago I expect things to be stable. >> Half >>>> working features , or added this broke that are not appealing to me. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sorry this was sent from mobile. Will do less grammar and spell check >> than >>>> usual. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sorry this was sent from mobile. Will do less grammar and spell check >> than >>> usual. >> > > > -- > Sorry this was sent from mobile. Will do less grammar and spell check than > usual.
