Having 3rd party projects page seems great to me, and offers a low friction way to highlight useful projects from the community.
Also would be good to have a set of example walkthroughs which walk you through a basic setup of: 1 node, multi node, and multi-dc. I don't find this on the site and always found it useful in hadoop (see https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html#Prepare_to_Start_the_Hadoop_Cluster ) On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:48 AM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > I agree with Josh about it going on the downloads page - I don't think > it's > > appropriate. > > To clarify: assuming we have something like this *in project governance*, I > definitely think it'd be helpful to have this on the downloads page and the > default "getting started building" experience we recommend. > > Alternatively we could update the wiki to have a tools page and different > ecosystem participants just add the various things they have that support > Cassandra and link them there. Something like Spark does here: > https://spark.apache.org/third-party-projects.html or Kafka here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Ecosystem > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:55 PM Ekaterina Dimitrova <e.dimitr...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Everything said up to now sounds good to me. I might only put this page > > with a list of tools separately. My gut feeling says the tools might be > > missed if they are together with books and publications? Just an idea > > BR, > > Ekaterina > > > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 12:51, Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > > > > > I agree with Josh about it going on the downloads page - I don't think > > it's > > > appropriate. However, there is a community page that has things like > > books > > > & publications. I think it could be helpful to add a 3rd party > projects > > > section to that page, as there's a number of useful utilities like > > reaper, > > > tlp-stress, the various K8 operators, instaclustr's sstable tools, etc. > > > > > > I'd like to get them all in one shot so if folks have other suggestions > > > please reply with them. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 8:35 AM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I'm in favor of this, though I'm unsure / wary of having a tool on > the > > > > project download page that's not under the governance of the project. > > > > Assuming ASL v2, we could consider making it a subproject (so as not > to > > > tie > > > > release cycles together) and having it become one of the default "get > > > > started building things with cassandra" experience. > > > > > > > > While I don't think it'd be possible for something like this to be > > ready > > > in > > > > time for the 4.0 beta launch (obviously), I think having a very low > > > > friction way to get started locally testing out C* could have a big > > > impact > > > > for our users trying out the beta. > > > > > > > > Curious what everyone else thinks. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 5:02 PM Chris Splinter < > > > chris.splinter...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > A few developers have been working on a tool to make it easier for > > > users > > > > to > > > > > learn and get started with Cassandra on a local machine. With this > > tool > > > > it > > > > > just requires a few clicks to get started and there's built-in > > > examples. > > > > If > > > > > you're interested in checking it out it's hosted here: > > > > > https://downloads.datastax.com/#desktop > > > > > > > > > > We'd love to get a feel for your interest and thoughts on whether a > > > > vendor > > > > > neutral, open-source version of this tool supporting C* and > > Kubernetes > > > > as a > > > > > starter could be referenced as an installation option on the > > downloads > > > > > page: https://cassandra.apache.org/download/ > > > > > > > > > > Let me know what you think, > > > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
