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
