> What's the verdict now for CASSANDRA-14973 ? My aim is to have a C* patch and PRs for the python and java drivers this week, but really there's nothing to block cutting a new C* beta now (or whenever we're ready).
> On 15 Dec 2020, at 15:39, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> >> To use a beta flag, one absolutely has to have matching server >> and client versions, since otherwise things can break in unexpected ways. >> In fact, this specific issue makes it easy since you'd see that something >> has changed immediately. >> > > > That could certainly deserve better documentation. For example, an extra > sentence at > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/doc/native_protocol_v5.spec#L140-L142 > > And it would also be awesome to see this on the website docs. It's a bit of > tribal knowledge and crawling jira tickets atm. > > I think it can also be made more explicit here by what we mean by "matching > server and client versions". To my understanding this is not explicit > versions within V5, as there is only that, but just > different build/implementation versions. And that this basically also means > mixed server versions are outside the scope of the beta flag. > > Nit-picking, "beta" isn't sounding like the most accurate classifier here. > It sounds to me more like it is "in development", i.e. 'dev', rather than > beta. > > >> +1 to have 4.0 with v5. > > > I agree, v6 is not needed. What's the verdict now for CASSANDRA-14973 ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org