Re: State Of: CQL - driver devs

2011-03-31 Thread Bjorn Borud
Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com writes: (Hopefully )for the next version, we'll replace Thrift with a dedicated protocol, one that eliminates the Thrift dependency, and more importantly, implements streaming. This should be transparent to applications for the most part though. pardon my

Re: State Of: CQL - driver devs

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 13:56 +0200, Bjorn Borud wrote: (Hopefully )for the next version, we'll replace Thrift with a dedicated protocol, one that eliminates the Thrift dependency, and more importantly, implements streaming. This should be transparent to applications for the most part

Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Peter Schuller
In response to the apparent mass confusion about nodetool repair that became evidence in the thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg11755.html I started looking around to see what is actually claimed about repair. I found that the Datastax docs:

Re: Status of deploy to maven central patch

2011-03-31 Thread Stu Hood
I would be +1 on this. We need a good way to develop against snapshots. Thanks for your work here Stephen. Stu On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote: Just an FYI. I have the required fixes for Maven ANT Tasks in place:

Re: Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Nick Telford
I couldn't agree more, the DataStax docs (try saying that 3 times fast) are definitely the most complete and user-friendly source for end-users, while the wiki contains a lot more detailed information on the architecture and internals. Ideally, I'd like to see the user docs be in a place that the

Re: Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 18:57 +0100, Nick Telford wrote: I don't think the Wiki is the right place for community maintained user docs; it doesn't have the necessary structure. The wiki is great at what wikis are great at, lowering the barrier to contribution. There is a lot of good stuff (some

Re: Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Nick Telford
I agree that wikis are great for contribution; what I meant was that they're rather poor at organising information for ease of discovery, especially by new users. I still like the idea of some more structured docs being managed by the community though. On 1 April 2011 02:16, Eric Evans