+1 from me as well for the release overall.
Steps I took to validate are pretty similar to what was on Andy's list:
- Validated all checksums
- Ran a simple test app with dependencies from the staging Maven repo
- Ran a DataStax Jenkins job (to confirm all integration tests and DSE
functionality)
For the record: the following might be useful if you're Gradle-inclined:
repositories {
>
> mavenCentral()
>
> maven {
>
> url = uri("
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-1423/
> ")
>
> }
>
> }
>
- Bret -
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM Bret McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 to the list Andy put out. That's pretty much the same set of steps
> I work through when I validate a given release.
>
> With respect to the point raised by Abe, he and Andy and I spent some
> time talking about this elsewhere. The source tarball is correct; it
> includes source for everything. Abe did point out that the distribution
> tarball in SVN doesn't have dependent JARs for all subprojects. This is
> something we can fix, but it's also probably a good start to a conversation
> about what role we want the distribution tarball to play and whether we
> need it at all anymore. Further discussion is _definitely_ required there,
> but the upshot is that no changes are required for this release; we can
> move forward with the artifacts Andy has already uploaded.
>
> Which in turn reminds me that _I_ need to validate this guy and give
> a +1... on to that now!
>
> - Bret -
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM Tolbert, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abe,
>>
>> Good catch! I assume you mean the main distribution (
>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cassandra/cassandra-java-driver/4.19.1/apache-cassandra-java-driver-4.19.1.tar.gz;
>> which also includes src zips), it does look like there are some modules
>> missing from the distribution pom that should probably be included; It's
>> likely that these modules were never added to the distribution build when
>> they were introduced and no one has noticed until now. Let me see if I can
>> fix that and make another go at this.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/apache/cassandra-java-driver/blob/4.x/distribution/pom.xml#L47-L69
>>
>> Just did a spot check and it looks like the source tar is including
>> everything since it's just grabbing everything with exception to some
>> dotfiles.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM Abe Ratnofsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Agree it would be helpful to have a standardized script.
>>>
>>> Maybe a noob question, but why do the source artifact distributions only
>>> contain (core, query-builder, mapper-processor, mapper-runtime) and not
>>> (metrics, guava, etc) which do have source files in-tree?
>>>
>>
