Switching a major default in a minor release is way worse than doing it in a GA - less notice and visibility, many folks don’t even read minor version NEWS.txt before upgrading.
Trunk is fine by me though. > On 12 Jan 2023, at 13:14, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Ok, wrt G1 default, this is won't go ahead for 4.1-rc1 >> >> We can revisit it for 4.1.x >> >> We have a lot of voices here adamantly positive for it, and those of us that >> have done the performance testing over the years know why. But being called >> to prove it is totally valid, if you have data to any such tests please add >> them to the ticket 18027 > > > Revisiting. Are there any vetoes to making G1 the default (and > updating the G1 settings, see the patch on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18027 ) for 4.1.1 ? > > IIUC , the summary of this thread till now was: there were no vetoes > to the change in trunk, but there were vetoes to 4.1.0 (because we > were inside the beta to GA window), and there was a desire to have > benchmarking data presented. > > WRT benchmarking, we have a separate thread for performance testing in > the project. The ticket admittedly does not do its due diligence on > data presentation and analysis of smaller heaps: a precedent we should > be creating; but instead relies upon experience from many. Are we ok > with this this time around, or shall the patch only be applied to > trunk (where we have no choice w/ jdk17 landing)?
