ahem, sorry looks like we're still waiting on something from Abe on that one. Nevermind for now :)
On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 1:05 PM, Blake Eggleston wrote: > Technically March, but Abe Ratnofsky was also added as a committer. Looks > like the announcement for that was missed > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 10:45 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote: >> Did you know I sometimes fail at email filtering? >> >> 4 new committers! FOUR. Welcome to Bernardo Botella Corbi as well! >> >> That was 3 days ago too. /sigh >> >> Congrats everyone! >> >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 1:39 PM, Josh McKenzie wrote: >>> What happened last month? *New PMC members and committers, that's what.* >>> >>> We welcomed *three* new people to the PMC in Feb: Jeremiah Jordan, Caleb >>> Rackliffe, and Ekaterina Dimitrova. We're the better for all three of them >>> being here with us; thank you all for your hard work over the years and >>> dedication to making this project a better place to collaborate. >>> >>> We added 3 new committers as well! Busy month. Maxwell Guo, Dmitry >>> Konstantinov, and Aaron Ploetz. It's really heartening to see this much >>> movement with us deepening our bench of both long-time contributors and new >>> entrants to the project. >>> >>> Congratulations again to all three of you new PMC members and you three new >>> committers! >>> >>> *[Releases]* >>> The 4.1 and 5.0 releases that were in limbo last we emailed were released, >>> along with the Java Driver 4.19.0 release, and the inaugural Sidecar 0.1.0 >>> release! Congratulations to everyone working hard on the sidecar to start >>> gaining momentum and building inertia on the project. >>> >>> *[Email Activity]* >>> - We had 38(!) topics on dev@, so I'll select a handful that I think >>> everyone should be aware of: >>> - CEP-15 Update: Benedict and the other contributors working on Accord >>> are looking for a community consensus on when to merge and what prereqs >>> might be reasonable. >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/j9qmj9rn1p0tlntc9k90bygh43y8sb57 >>> - Joel Shepherd is exploring run-time collisions of dependencies with >>> an ask around whether we've considered factoring interfaces out of the core >>> DB into a shared library: >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/7x9wsn265mq5jd5q236y0nkjsw6ycbct >>> - Radim Vansa is looking for feedback on a patch for Spring Boot to >>> make things work with the OpenJDK CRaC project: >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/9sms1sk8fd739mp7699wrbj0vnd0kzd1. Seems the >>> Spring folks felt their community wasn't the right place for the work so >>> Radim is wondering if ours is. >>> - Dmitry's opened up the discussion about dropping Dropwizard/Codahale >>> metrics in the Cassandra Server; some good discussion there: >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/xwxqhmzbtxo4job1r0t8j0b9838t7jvd >>> - Cassandra Forward 2025 happens on March 11; see Patric's announcement >>> and reminder here: >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/thkksv42wkbksfhv986mdwzo1r4cxdo9 >>> - And last but definitely not least, David wins an award for the best >>> email subject line in recent memory with "Meaningless emptiness and >>> filtering": https://lists.apache.org/thread/h3mlccz4g6o9tfz9bgb9p4f395lpmswp >>> The user list has a couple topics folks have engaged with already around >>> reattaching EBS replicas async and doing a PoC of Cassandra on AWS EC2 >>> Graviton's. Check those out if you're interested. >>> >>> *[JIRA Activity]* >>> Closed: 106 issues closed in JIRA since Feb 3: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20and%20resolution%20!%3D%20unresolved%20and%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202025-02-03. >>> Again: that's a lot. Color me impressed. >>> >>> Created: 103 new issues: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20and%20created%20%3E%3D%202025-02-03. >>> Of those, 81 are still unresolved. >>> >>> *[New Contributors]* >>> Hello and welcome! We've flagged some tickets as good starter tickets and >>> you can find them in our JIRA kanban board here: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2162&quickFilter=2160. >>> All of these are unassigned so feel free to browse and find what interests >>> you. >>> >>> Join us on the ASF slack: https://the-asf.slack.com, in #cassandra-dev for >>> dev discussion and #cassandra for user discussion. If you need an invite to >>> the slack server, let me know and I'll get you setup. >>> >>> *[Needs Committer]* >>> We have 9 tickets that qualify for needing a committer, up from 8 last >>> month: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2170. >>> For those that don't know, we require 2 +1 from committers on the project >>> before merge. >>> >>> *[Needs Reviewer]* >>> As a reminder here's our JQL: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12353799#. We're up from 97 >>> to 108 tickets that are Patch Available and need a reviewer. I'll actually >>> set a reminder to myself to follow up with pinging people on these old >>> tickets this time. :) >>> >>> *[CI]* >>> Butler: https://butler.cassandra.apache.org/#/ >>> Nothing untoward seems to be happening here.; holding steady. >>> >>> And there we have it folks. Lots of talking, lots of JIRAs, lots of code. >>> Good month for the project. >>> >>> As always - thanks everyone for your time and commitment to the project! >>> >>> ~Josh >> >
