Looks like it's time for an update - been a very busy couple of weeks. [Biweekly digest] There's quite a bit going on in the past two weeks - here's some shortcuts if you missed things:
0. A significant issue with Gossip on large clusters surfaced leading to the 4.0.1 test release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16877 1. The test artifact for Cassandra 4.0.1 is now available 2. Where should minor improvements land? In general what are our practices on what patch types land in which releases? https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r05d0574cbfe11634abc5b297fbd41701e8444cabb2adf3002d31d15b%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E 3. How do we appropriately annotate Co-authors of work? Expect to see this show up in the contributing guidelines at some point soon. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16879?focusedCommentId=17405281&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-17405281 4. Progress on CEP-13, denylisting partitions: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1547c5f2fb8548e2f7dcbe1a26da8c2a95ebec81adeeb2ea0545924d%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E 5. A proposal to improve repair: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd93e7184ded913a4e95eeaff32c22339d6c3d64685afe50c2593acde%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E 6. CEP-14: Vote (in progress) on Paxos improvements: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3b10a8da8b6e4201b5ca0142b9a6a883f0991d504e867c7d4d128a85%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E 7. CEP-11: Vote passes for pluggable Memtable API 8. Java support for 11 made official, 17 support JIRA added: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16895, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r06a4768bae215dc19469491a1faec64dd90e1c3d4d10ed34b85ba248%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E Discussion is still ongoing about CEP-13 (denylisting) and about David's proposed repair improvements - please chime in if you have some thoughts or experience there you'd like to share. [4.0.x and 4.x, by the numbers] 4.0.1: 14 issues closed in the last 2 weeks https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2175 We have 6 tickets in review stalled for 30d or more, and 3 tickets that are 40_Quality_Test tickets that need a reviewer: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2171 8 tickets are flagged as in-progress but haven't seen updates in a month, 4 of which are 40_Quality_Test tickets. These might be good candidates to ping the assignee if you have cycles and interest to see if there's an opportunity for a handoff. To visualize momentum on the project, the cumulative flow diagram for 4.0.1 shows solid progress leading up to this initial .0.1 release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=reporting&chart=cumulativeFlowDiagram&swimlane=1214&column=2116&column=2117&column=2118&column=2130&column=2133&column=2124&column=2127&column=2119&days=90 4.1: 8 issues closed in the last 2 weeks https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2175 We have 3 in review that are stalled for 30d, and *18* tickets on 4.x that need reviewers. If anyone has any review cycles please take a look at the list on that kanban. Visualization on 4.1.0 shows that, as one might expect, we are increasing our backlog and chipping away a tiny bit at broader work on the release. Given the velocity we have on 4.0.1, we can both expect to see this now and expect to see that change as the 4.0.x line matures. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=reporting&chart=cumulativeFlowDiagram&swimlane=1215&column=2116&column=2117&column=2118&column=2130&column=2133&column=2124&column=2127&column=2119&days=90 And "that's all" for this 2 weeks (busy times) - as always thanks everyone for the commitment and great work on the project, and excited to see what the next two weeks brings. ~Josh
