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
