Re: [VOTE] release cassandra 0.5.0-rc3

2010-01-08 Thread ant elder
+1 ...ant On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: The Cassandra community voted on and approved the release of Apache Cassandra 0.5.0-rc3. We would now like to request the approval of the Incubator PMC for this release. Cassandra is a massively scalable,

the release after 0.5

2010-01-08 Thread Jonathan Ellis
In the month since 0.5 was branched, we've already made some significant progress, particularly in performance. I can't find a way to easily link the full list in Jira, but these include 408+669 (mmapping sstables for reads instead of using buffered I/O): ~50% speed improvement 658 (better

Re: release policy

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 13:47 -0600, Jonathan Ellis wrote: [ ... ] Thoughts? (Separate threads to follow re the next major release after 0.5 specifically, and 1.0.) I'd be curious to hear from the Digg guys. My understanding is that they've been doing a considerable amount of custom release

Re: release policy

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Goffinet
We maintain our own branch, but we have been good about rebasing changes from 05 branch for last 2 months. We don't have major changes in our branch (besides debian pkg and few custom Comparators and EndpointSnitches that apply to our infrastructure) so the process has been fairly streamlined.