Agree as well. Happy to have anything like this on a community downloads page provided the license isnt anything weird.
Evaluation with a website PR and a JIRA should suffice? On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 4:51 AM 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 > > > > > >
