Thank you Maxim! I also agree with 1 and 2. Also, thank you for considering documentation. The datastax docs page mentioned here is not maintained by the project, the other one can get some love. I guess if we are adding description column, we can automate the way we populate that page. But I think this is something for a separate ticket for docs mgmt.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 15:05, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > I want also to clarify and discuss with you some points related to the > > SystemPropertiesTable virtual table. > > > > 1. Hide non-production environment properties in the SystemProperties > > virtual table. > > > > As you may know, the result of the query on the virtual table > > currently includes the environment properties related to tests as well > > (used internally for our testing purposes) ~ 42 out of 290. This seems > > a bit redundant for production use and floods the query output with > > the things you don't need to think about. I think we can add a new > > property -Dcassandra.vt.show.test.system.properties (false by default) > > properties to hide these test-related properties for production > > environments while still using them for our test runs and build > > scripts. Hiding test properties is not a regression in this case. Any > > thoughts? > > > > > > 2. The absence of a description of the system properties. > > > > I have found that there is no good description of the system > > properties used to configure production environments. Is there any > > documentation for this case? Do we need to keep these pages up to > > date? > > > > It's a yes to both (1) and (2) from me. > > Appreciate it Maxim. Also that CASSANDRA-18587 is taking into account > compatibility. >