Makes sense. Does this become "LTS" ? or is this something else.
On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 04:03 PM Josh McKenzie wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 04:03 PM Josh McKenzie wrote: > Many large‑scale Cassandra users have had to maintain private feature > back-port forks (e.g., CEP‑37, compaction optimization, etc) for years on > older branches. That duplication adds risk and pulls time away from > upstream contributions which came up as a pain point in discussion at CoC > this year. > The proposal we came up with: an official, community‑maintained backport > branch (e.g. cassandra‑5.1) built on the current GA release that we pilot > for a year and then decide if we want to make it official. The branch would > selectively accept non‑disruptive improvements that meet criteria we define > together. There’s a lot of OSS prior art here (Lucene, httpd, Hadoop, > Kafka, Linux kernel, etc). > Benefits include reduced duplicated effort, a safer middle ground between > trunk and frozen GA releases, faster delivery of vetted features, and > community energy going to this branch instead of duplicated on private > forks. > If you’re interested in helping curate or maintain this branch - or have > thoughts on the idea - please reply and voice your thoughts. > ~Josh >
