Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-17 Thread Dop Sun
I am not dev of cassandra, sub this list because i'm dev for app using it. To me, this (phone home) opens a door, and it may designed to be used only for carefully selected anonymous data: 1) but software has at least one bug (side effect), what happen it sends something more accidentally? Also,

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-17 Thread Radim Kolar
Dne 16.11.2011 23:58, Bill napsal(a): We'll turn this off, and would possibly patch it out of the code. That's not to say it wouldn't be useful to others. we patch out of code spyware in ehcache and quartz too. This is only way to be sure that it will not be enabled by configuration mistake. W

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-17 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Jeremy Hanna wrote: > Sounds like it would be best if it were in a separate jar for people? A separate jar (distributed separately) sounds like the best way to setup an opt-in arrangement without forcing people to patch-out the affected bits. > On Nov 16, 2011, a

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
+1 for a separate jar (and a second download link that doesn't include this jar, though I would make the primary link include it with BIG BOLD PRINT saying it is in there) +1 for a config option to turn off auto-post (defaulted on in the download that has the jar) +1 for a nodetool command to du

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy Hanna
Sounds like it would be best if it were in a separate jar for people? On Nov 16, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Bill wrote: > > Thoughts? > > > > We'll turn this off, and would possibly patch it out of the code. That's not > to say it wouldn't be useful to others. > > Bill > > > On 15/11/11 23:23, Jonath

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Bill
> Thoughts? > We'll turn this off, and would possibly patch it out of the code. That's not to say it wouldn't be useful to others. Bill On 15/11/11 23:23, Jonathan Ellis wrote: I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are still trickling in), but as useful as that i

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Ryan King
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Sounds like the consensus is that if this is a good idea at all, it > needs to be opt-in.  Like I said earlier, I can live with that. In addition, if you want to get data from large companies that manage their own datacenters, there needs

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Sounds like the consensus is that if this is a good idea at all, it needs to be opt-in. Like I said earlier, I can live with that. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Jake Luciani wrote: > Having worked at places where you get fired if software *attempts* to > contact outside world I understand th

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Eric Evans wrote: >> There probably is a rather large group of "shadow" users whose >> (valuable?) input doesn't make it to the list or bug tracker.  It >> sounds like Gary is questioning whether we should

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > There probably is a rather large group of "shadow" users whose > (valuable?) input doesn't make it to the list or bug tracker.  It > sounds like Gary is questioning whether we should be giving these > people a voice.  Assuming I have that right

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: >> Here is what should determine where energy is spent:  if enough people >> are willing to expend the effort to voice their concerns about feature >> X in JIRA and on the mailing list,

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Joe Stein
This brings up a nice possibility also for businesses to have Cassandra outsourced monitoring service(s)/solutions(s) from ring infrastructure perspective. Any chance the URL Cassandra posts information too can be configurable also? Maybe even an abstract class so others can extend it and the fir

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jake Luciani
Having worked at places where you get fired if software *attempts* to contact outside world I understand the concerns. However, if it's opt-in via config file and requires a restart then there is no reason why it should be a concern. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Zhu Han wrote: > On Wed, No

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: > Here is what should determine where energy is spent:  if enough people > are willing to expend the effort to voice their concerns about feature > X in JIRA and on the mailing list, and there are people willing to do > the technical work, and

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Gary Dusbabek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 17:23, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are > still trickling in), but as useful as that is, I'd like to get > feedback that is more quantitative and with a broader base.  This will > let us prioritize our development

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > How much value do you think there is from a subset sent from a > self-selecting group? A fair amount. [1] [2] [1] http://amp.cs.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The-Case-for-Evaluating-MapReduce-Performance-Using-Workload-Suites.pdf [2

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Brian O'Neill wrote: >> Maybe a good old fashioned web form that allows companies to submit their >> usage scenarios might accomplish the same goal? > > I suppose we could dump the information to a file some

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Brian O'Neill wrote: > Maybe a good old fashioned web form that allows companies to submit their > usage scenarios might accomplish the same goal? I suppose we could dump the information to a file somewhere as a fallback way to submit, but I wouldn't want to make

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Brian O'Neill
Lively thread... +1 opt-in +1 in separate module I'll just substantiate Rick Shaw's comments. If this is on by default, I can see it making its way into production at a large corporation, at which time the traffic would sound an alarm as suspicious activity, which would immediately get the serve

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Eric Evans wrote: >> I think this is potentially quite dangerous; There are a lot people >> who get very twitchy at the idea of software that Phones Home.  I've >> seen this so many times, and in all cases i

AW: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Roland Gude
should) - even stick a "Enable/Disable" switch on top of it. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dave Brosius [mailto:dbros...@baybroadband.net] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. November 2011 02:25 An: dev@cassandra.apache.org Betreff: Re: How is Cassandra being used? +1 for an opt-in appro

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Dave Brosius
+1 for an opt-in approach. To get better opt-in rates perhaps prompt for it on start (once) rather than hope folks find it buried in the yaml Eric Evans wrote: >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are >> s

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Dave Brosius
On 11/15/2011 09:01 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Eric Evans wrote: I think this is potentially quite dangerous; There are a lot people who get very twitchy at the idea of software that Phones Home. I've seen this so many times, and in all cases it was for software

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Peter Tillotson
rting  (+1) 2) Automated feedback (opt in +1)  p From: Jonathan Ellis To: dev Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 23:23 Subject: How is Cassandra being used? I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are still trickling in), but as

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-16 Thread Zhu Han
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Norman Maurer wrote: > 2011/11/16 Jonathan Ellis : > > I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are > > still trickling in), but as useful as that is, I'd like to get > > feedback that is more quantitative and with a broader base. This wi

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Norman Maurer
2011/11/16 Jonathan Ellis : > I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are > still trickling in), but as useful as that is, I'd like to get > feedback that is more quantitative and with a broader base.  This will > let us prioritize our development efforts to better address

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Ashish
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I don't think the cases are parallel. Terracotta added this in (a) a > minor release, (b) without mentioning it in the release notes, and (c) > without a method to disable it. for c) it can be disabled :) Just curious, who owns this Phone

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I don't think the cases are parallel. Terracotta added this in (a) a minor release, (b) without mentioning it in the release notes, and (c) without a method to disable it. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Radim Kolar wrote: > ppl hate EHCache and Quartz for doing this. > -- Jonathan Ellis Pr

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Radim Kolar
ppl hate EHCache and Quartz for doing this.

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Rick Shaw
Yes of course. But then an alarm would sound, emails to management would be sent, and the violator of the corporate policy would be hunted down and dealt with accordingly... The point is that the responsible parties are expected to NOT do such things in the first place. I expect many shops are

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Rick Shaw wrote: > Speaking from the perspective of a large corporation with many and varied > privacy and IP protection requirements it will be totally impossible to send > ANY kind of data into the public network from a production Data Center. At the risk of

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Rick Shaw
Speaking from the perspective of a large corporation with many and varied privacy and IP protection requirements it will be totally impossible to send ANY kind of data into the public network from a production Data Center. I expect most companies with similar concerns would want to be ASSURED t

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Dave Brosius
On 11/15/2011 09:01 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Eric Evans wrote: I think this is potentially quite dangerous; There are a lot people who get very twitchy at the idea of software that Phones Home. I've seen this so many times, and in all cases it was for software

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > I think this is potentially quite dangerous; There are a lot people > who get very twitchy at the idea of software that Phones Home.  I've > seen this so many times, and in all cases it was for software a lot > less sensitive than a database. T

Re: How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are > still trickling in), but as useful as that is, I'd like to get > feedback that is more quantitative and with a broader base.  This will > let us prioritize our developm

How is Cassandra being used?

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are still trickling in), but as useful as that is, I'd like to get feedback that is more quantitative and with a broader base. This will let us prioritize our development efforts to better address what people are actually using it f