Hi, Strong +1 as well. It's a pretty critical dependency in the path of testing and committing changes. Supporting integration points for alternative distributions of Cassandra is something I think we should generally be supportive as it's generally an opportunity to make things more modular and testable anyways.
Ariel On Wed, May 15, 2024, at 10:23 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote: > Right now ccm isn't formally a subproject of Cassandra or under governance of > the ASF. Given it's an integral components of our CI as well as for local > testing for many devs, and we now have more experience w/our muscle on IP > clearance and ingesting / absorbing subprojects where we can't track down > every single contributor to get an ICLA, seems like it might be worth > revisiting the topic of donation of ccm to Apache. > > For what it's worth, Sylvain originally and then DataStax after transfer have > both been incredible and receptive stewards of the projects and repos, so > this isn't about any response to any behavior on their part. Structurally, > however, it'd be better for the health of the project(s) long-term to have > ccm promoted in. As far as I know there was strong receptivity to that > donation in the past but the IP clearance was the primary hurdle. > > Anyone have any thoughts for or against? > > https://github.com/riptano/ccm >
