[VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2

2010-02-23 Thread Eric Evans
There has been a lot of cool work done since our last release[1] (0.5.0), and while there's still a bit more to be done[2], the dust is settling on all of the big stuff. Now seems like a good time for a beta release. I propose the following tag and artifacts for 0.6.0-beta2[3]: SVN Tag:

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Jonathan Ellis
no. 2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:12:58 +0100 Peter Schüller sc...@spotify.com wrote: PS In general, what are people's thoughts on the appropriate mechanism to PS gain confidence that the cluster as a whole is reasonably consistent? PS In particular in

Re: Tests ... large-volume, long-running, failure-case

2010-02-23 Thread Jonathan Ellis
contrib/py_stress is our standard performance tool. I think contrib/ is only in the source distro. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Masood Mortazavi masoodmortaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Besides the regression tests described in How to Contribute, are there performance,

Re: Tests ... large-volume, long-running, failure-case

2010-02-23 Thread David Strauss
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:47 -0800, Masood Mortazavi wrote: Besides the regression tests described in How to Contribute, are there performance, large-data-volume, long-running or failure-case (regression-type or otherwise) tests, either in the binary or source distribution? There are stress

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:49:37 -0600 Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: JE 2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:12:58 +0100 Peter Schüller sc...@spotify.com wrote: PS In general, what are people's thoughts on the appropriate mechanism to PS gain confidence that

Re: [VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2

2010-02-23 Thread Ryan King
+1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Gary Dusbabek gdusba...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:36, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: There has been a lot of cool work done since our last release[1] (0.5.0), and while there's still a bit more to be done[2], the dust is

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Jonathan Ellis
2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: Can a Cassandra node be made read-only (as far as clients know)? JE no. Is there value (for reaching consistency) in adding that functionality? No. Thanks for the easy questions today. :) -Jonathan

Re: [VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2

2010-02-23 Thread Dan Di Spaltro
+1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Ryan King r...@twitter.com wrote: +1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Gary Dusbabek gdusba...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:36, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: There has been a lot of cool work done since our last

Re: [VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2

2010-02-23 Thread Brandon Williams
+1 -Brandon

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:25:29 -0600 Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: JE 2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: Can a Cassandra node be made read-only (as far as clients know)? JE no. Is there value (for reaching consistency) in adding that functionality? JE No. JE Thanks for the

Re: [VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2

2010-02-23 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:36 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: I propose the following tag and artifacts for 0.6.0-beta2[3]: SVN Tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.6.0-beta2 0.6.0-beta2 artifacts: http://people.apache.org/~eevans It's been pointed out that

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Jonathan Ellis
2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: You're welcome.  I don't understand why it doesn't help reach consistency, though.  If you turn all the nodes in a cluster read-only at the API level, what can make them inconsistent besides inter-node traffic and scheduled writes?  I'd assume that

Re: [VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2

2010-02-23 Thread Stu Hood
+1 Unit, integration and stress tests passed. -Original Message- From: Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:52pm To: cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release 0.6.0-beta2 On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:36 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: I propose

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:57:15 -0600 Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: JE 2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: You're welcome.  I don't understand why it doesn't help reach consistency, though.  If you turn all the nodes in a cluster read-only at the API level, what can make them

[VOTE] Release 0.5.1

2010-02-23 Thread Eric Evans
There have been some important bug fixes[1] in the 0.5 branch since we released. Plus, I thought it would be cool to conduct two separate release votes at the time. :) I propose the following tag and artifacts for 0.5.1: SVN Tag:

Re: thinking about dropping hinted handoff

2010-02-23 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:44:29 -0600 Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: JE 2010/2/23 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com: JE because in a masterless environment there is no way to tell when it's over Would it work to use an external agent?  It can get the list of nodes, make them all

RE: [VOTE] Release 0.5.1

2010-02-23 Thread Stu Hood
+1 Passes unit and integration tests. -Original Message- From: Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:27pm To: cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Release 0.5.1 There have been some important bug fixes[1] in

Re: [VOTE] Release 0.5.1

2010-02-23 Thread Brandon Williams
+1 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: There have been some important bug fixes[1] in the 0.5 branch since we released. Plus, I thought it would be cool to conduct two separate release votes at the time. :) I propose the following tag and artifacts for