Re: [DISCUSSION] Attracting new contributors

2021-04-25 Thread Paulo Motta
Hi, Thanks for bringing this important topic for discussion Benjamin. I think it would help to enumerate what issues we face to attract new contributors currently and then try to act on those. 1. Committers have little bandwidth to review low-impact issues (ie. Low Hanging Fruit (LHF)), which

Re: Switching the website to a temporary static html version of the new design

2021-04-25 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
Hi, is this version of the web page already "analytics friendly"? In the context of https://plausible.cassandra.apache.org/cassandra.apache.org On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 13:44, Michael Semb Wever wrote: > > > > As a risk mitigator, I was hoping we could preserve > > the sub-URIs so the switch

Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0-rc1 released

2021-04-25 Thread Patrick McFadin
This is pretty exciting and a huge milestone for the project. Congratulations to all the contributors who worked hard at making this the release it needed to be and honoring the database that powers the world. Patrick On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 4:10 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > The Cassandra team

Re: Switching the website to a temporary static html version of the new design

2021-04-25 Thread Michael Semb Wever
> As a risk mitigator, I was hoping we could preserve > the sub-URIs so the switch doesn't impact current users: > - make sure /doc/3.11/ (and other supported versions) still works > - rename /doc/latest/ to /doc/4.0/ but pointing to the existing version of > the site just to be sure we have a

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0-rc1 released

2021-04-25 Thread Mick Semb Wever
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 4.0-rc1. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source

[VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-rc1 (take2)

2021-04-25 Thread Mick Semb Wever
> The vote will be open for 72 hours (longer if needed). Everyone who > has tested the build is invited to vote. Votes by PMC members are > considered binding. A vote passes if there are at least three binding > +1s and no -1's. The vote has passed with 11 binding +1 votes and 10 non-binding