We should also have deprecation guidance in Config.java. This will help when anybody is making changes in the future.
> On Feb 11, 2022, at 3:07 PM, Ekaterina Dimitrova <e.dimitr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Note taken, I had to document only in 4.0.x that those are placeholder. I > just opened ticket to fix that - CASSANDRA-17377. I am going to submit a > patch soon > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 17:44, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com > <mailto:jji...@gmail.com>> wrote: > We don't HAVE TO remove the Config.java entry - we can mark it as deprecated > and ignored and remove it in a future version (and you could update > Config.java to log a message about having a deprecated config option). It's a > much better operator experience: log for a major version, then remove in the > next. > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 2:41 PM Ekaterina Dimitrova <e.dimitr...@gmail.com > <mailto:e.dimitr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > This had to be removed in 4.0 but it wasn’t. The patch mentioned did it to > fix a bug that gives impression those work. Confirmed with Benedict on the > ticket. > > I agree I absolutely had to document it better, a ticket for documentation > was opened but it slipped from my mind with this emergency release this week. > It is unfortunate it is still in our backlog after the ADOC migration. > > Note taken. I truly apologize and I am going to prioritize CASSANDRA-17135. > Let me know if there is anything else I can/should do at this point. > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 17:26, Erick Ramirez <erick.rami...@datastax.com > <mailto:erick.rami...@datastax.com>> wrote: > (moved dev@ to BCC) > > It looks like the otc_coalescing_strategy config key is no longer supported > in cassandra.yaml in 4.0.2, despite this not being mentioned anywhere in > CHANGES.txt or NEWS.txt. > > James, you're right -- it was removed by CASSANDRA-17132 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17132> in 4.0.2 and 4.1. > > I agree that the CHANGES.txt entry should be clearer and we'll improve it > plus add detailed info in NEWS.txt. I'll get this done soon in > CASSANDRA-17135 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17135>. > Thanks for the feedback. Cheers!
