Thanks everyone for the responses, it seems like the hot migration in fact is not a critical feature which is good news (means we have less work to do for the 1.0.0 release).
Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:49 AM Matthew Benedict de Detrich < [email protected]> wrote: > Historically (even before Pekko was accepted into Apache Incubator) > discussions have been made about implementing changes to Pekko so that it > can run alongside Akka in existing Akka clusters which is necessary to > migrate from Akka to Pekko (in a rolling release fashion) without having to > shut down the cluster. > > Initially it was planned to have such functionality in the 1.0.x release > of Pekko since a non trivial amount of people asked for it. On the one > hand, having such functionality in Pekko 1.0.x would send a very strong > impression which could theoretically increase the amount of > adoption/visibility however there are concerns about whether this is > feasible without pushing the release out even further. > > My initial impressions is that the actual amount of technical work > required to achieve this is not a lot (in fact arguably its even lower than > anticipated, i.e. see > https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/issues/108#issuecomment-1400078644) > but I predict largest bulk of work is not in the implementation of the > necessary changes, but rather all of the mix cluster testing that needs to > be done in order to verify that everything works correctly and we didn't > miss anything. > > Personally I think that doing this for 1.0.x is achievable without pushing > the release out significantly but only if people within the Pekko community > are willing to test mix cluster setups (on the assumption that as mentioned > before, the actual technical changes required aren't that extensive). As I > see it, the most active committers right now are working at capacity on the > large bucket list of changes that needs to be done to get Pekko release out > (on top of that there are other competing concerns, i.e. trying to get > snapshots for other Pekko modules so that at least the community can > test/try it out) and at least for me I don't have the time (or even in > house knowledge) on mix cluster testing. > > Thoughts? > > -- > > Matthew de Detrich > > *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* > > Immanuelkirchstraße 26, 10405 Berlin > > Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B > > Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa & Hannu Valtonen > > *m:* +491603708037 > > *w:* aiven.io *e:* [email protected] > -- Matthew de Detrich *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* Immanuelkirchstraße 26, 10405 Berlin Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa & Hannu Valtonen *m:* +491603708037 *w:* aiven.io *e:* [email protected]
