Re: Google Season of Docs 2019 for Apache Cassandra

2019-07-23 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
rt and a bunch of folks from the community have volunteered. We're actively working with the GSoD team. We also have responded to everyone who has reached out. Nobody was ignored. Dinesh > On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:13 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > S

Re: Google Season of Docs 2019 for Apache Cassandra

2019-07-23 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
means. Nate & I were simultaneously busy with ACNA 2019 CfP and coordinating with ASF to organize it. We have a lot of interest in Cassandra Track at ACNA 2019 :) Thanks, Dinesh > On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:46 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: &

Re: 4.0 alpha before apachecon?

2019-08-29 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Seems to make sense to branch, right? On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:10 PM +0100, "sankalp kohli" wrote: Will we cut alpha1 and later alpha releases from trunk or create a new branch? On Friday, August 30, 2019, Nate McCall

Re: How to stop github notification emails?

2019-09-05 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 These should be sent to commits@, not dev@ On 05/09/2019, 09:19, "Stefan Miklosovic" wrote: Hi, maybe I am missing here something but how can I get rid of these emails which are polluting my inbox? "[GitHub] [cassandra-builds] michaelsembwever commented on issue #

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-alpha1 (24 hour vote)

2019-09-06 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think anybody can run these tests locally. It's just possible to pay to offload them. And when I say anybody, I don't mean me, because I always fail to get dtests to run due to environmental problems. But I'm reliably informed that others manage. On 06/09/2019, 11:48, "Mick Semb Wever"

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposing an Cassandra Enhancement Proposal (CEP) process

2019-09-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think we need to have a meta discussion about the goal for introducing a new process. Your email mentions two reasons that I can see: 1) Clarity of the outcome? "For example they have been written up in jira tickets, in a way that becomes quite difficult to unpack afterwards the difference

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposing an Cassandra Enhancement Proposal (CEP) process

2019-09-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Can we modify the document to make this really explicit then? Right now, the language suggests the process is mandated, rather than encouraged and beneficial. It would be nice to frame it as a positive and incentivised undertaking by authors, and to list the intended advantages, as well as the

4.0 Max TTL

2019-09-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
1.During ApacheCon, Laxmikant approached me to discuss CASSANDRA-14227.  It was also raised on the list back in January. Taking a closer look, it probably is not very difficult for us to fix this – either by treating the int as unsigned, or by widening it to a long value.  Since this can

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposing an Cassandra Enhancement Proposal (CEP) process

2019-09-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
e, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:44 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > Can we modify the document to make this really explicit then? Right now, > the language suggests the process is mandated, rather than encouraged and > beneficial. > > It would be nice to frame it

Re: "4.0: TBD" -> "4.0: Est. Q4 2019"?

2019-09-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Lazy consensus still requires a formal vote, just one that is declared to be governed by lazy consensus. I think we need to spend some time formalising our governance, so that we can employ it confidently. At the very least, we should try to codify where we are comfortable employing lazy conse

Re: "4.0: TBD" -> "4.0: Est. Q4 2019"?

2019-09-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
with what you've stated here bes: "participation in decision-making is costly, and that proposers should understand that they need to work to lower the cost of decision-making on their proposal, and that we as a project need to figure out how to help them do this.&quo

Re: [VOTE] Apache Cassandra Release Lifecycle

2019-09-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Perhaps we should move the proposed document to the cwiki for purposes of voting? That way it's in a place owned by the project, with a permanent history. Otherwise it's not entirely clear what was voted on. On 30/09/2019, 20:10, "Sumanth Pasupuleti" wrote: +1 On Mon, Sep 30,

Re: [VOTE-2] Apache Cassandra Release Lifecycle

2019-10-08 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
As a brief side-step on the topic only of versioning (which no doubt will cause enough consternation), I personally endorse streamlining it. We have not had a consistently meaningful convention on this, at any point, and we made it even worse in the 3.x line. There's no real difference between

Re: [VOTE-2] Apache Cassandra Release Lifecycle

2019-10-08 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
>> This has definitely been a confusing topic in the past, I completely agree >> Benedict. Glad you brought this up. >> >> I'm 100% on board with 5.0 after 4.0. >> >> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 2:27 PM Benedict Elliott Smith >>

Re: Protocol-impacting (internode and client) changes for 4.0

2019-10-09 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 09/10/2019, 17:50, "Oleksandr Petrov" wrote: Hi, During NGCC/ACNA19 we've had quite a few conversations around the 4.0 release. Many (minor) features and changes suggested during that time are possible to implement in 4.next without any problem. However, some changes

Re: Improving our frequency of (patch) releases, and letting committers make releases

2019-10-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 We need to do something about this, and I don't mind what. It would be better if we cut fix releases immediately after a critical fix lands, much as we used to. We've got fairly lazy about producing releases, perhaps because many of the full-time contributors now work for organisations tha

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 3.0.19

2019-10-25 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 25/10/2019, 13:58, "Joshua McKenzie" wrote: +1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:39 PM Nate McCall wrote: > +1 > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:31 AM Michael Shuler > wrote: > > > I propose the following artifacts for release as 3.0.19. > > >

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 2.2.15

2019-10-25 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 25/10/2019, 13:59, "Joshua McKenzie" wrote: +1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:39 PM Nate McCall wrote: > +1 > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:25 AM Michael Shuler > wrote: > > > I propose the following artifacts for release as 2.2.15. > > >

Re: [VOTE] Cassandra Enhancement Proposal (CEP) documentation

2019-11-01 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 01/11/2019, 12:33, "Mick Semb Wever" wrote: Please vote on accepting the Cassandra Enhancement Proposal (CEP) document as a starting point and guide towards improving collaboration on, and success of, new features and significant improvements. In combination with the recently accep

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I personally welcome your increased participation in any role, and more focus on project delivery is certainly a great thing. But developer time from your employer would probably be more impactful, as the main active contributors right now have their own project management infrastructure, and a

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
they are and add what value I can and work with the project to help keep momentum high and remove blockers or stalls from people's workflows. Does the above make sense? On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 8:30 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > I persona

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> Isn’t this the point of project management; to avoid this issue? Is the point of project management to avoid the problems caused by project management? That feels like a Dilbert cartoon. To be clear, I'm simply responding to the apparent suggestion that we assign every 4.0 ticket to somebod

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Yes, I also miss those fortnightly (or monthly) summaries that Jeff used to do. They were very useful "glue" in the community. I imagine they'd also make writing the board report easier. +1, those were great - To uns

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ge. Patrick On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 3:21 PM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 3:19 PM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:35 PM Benedict Elliott Smith < > > bened...@apache.org> wro

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
s allowed to use his time to try and get some people together to discuss contributing? -Jeremiah Jordan Person with no formal role in the Apache Cassandra project. > On Jan 10, 2020, at 7:44 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > This is also great. But i

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-11 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ting to the dev list. Hugs and kisses friends, - Jeff > On Jan 10, 2020, at 6:05 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > To be clear, as it seems like I'm being very negative here, I'm really pleased to see DataStax suddenly increase their

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-11 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
thread. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/aa54420a43671c00392978f2b0920bc6926ca9ba1e61a486ad39fb21%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 3:16 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > I recall this being discussed at ApacheCon, and I recall the ide

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-11 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
nyone can propose an alternate time. How is it private ? What else do you suggest ? > On Jan 11, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > I think everyone is missing my point, and the reason for it. I am super focused on not repeating the situati

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-11 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Kohli" wrote: > >The Agenda is public and everyone will contribute to it. Anyone can attend the meeting. Anyone can propose an alternate time. How is it private ? > >What else do you suggest ? > >> On Jan 11, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Benedict

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-12 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> I think as long as we all believe we're all good faith actors, truly believe > we all want what's best for the project (even if we don't necessarily all > agree on what that is all the time), and internalize that nobody wants to see > a monoculture on the project, we'll be fine. I realised re

Re: Cassandra 4.0 Dev Work Status

2020-01-15 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think there's always been a distinction in the way we treat alphas/betas versus patch releases, because they have a staged delivery (landing for dev and users in different releases). I don't know we've ever been totally consistent about it across major versions though. I think we can view 4.

Re: Cassandra 4.0 Dev Work Status

2020-01-15 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
t was delivered. On 15/01/2020, 13:34, "Benedict Elliott Smith" wrote: I think there's always been a distinction in the way we treat alphas/betas versus patch releases, because they have a staged delivery (landing for dev and users in different releases). I don't kno

Re: [DISCUSS] Switch to using GitHub pull requests?

2020-01-22 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
This is brought up roughly once per year. If anything, you're a bit behind schedule https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0750a01682eb36374e490385d6776669ac86ebc02efa27a87b2dbf9f%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c21ccedc7fbda18558997dee8f86c074514b67387858ec12

Re: [DISCUSS] Switch to using GitHub pull requests?

2020-01-24 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
The common factor is flaky tests, not people. You get a clean run, you commit. Turns out, a test was flaky. This reduces trust in CI, so people commit without looking as closely at results. Gating on clean tests doesn't help, as you run until you're clean. Rinse and repeat. Breakages accum

Re: [DISCUSS] Switch to using GitHub pull requests?

2020-01-24 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
nt wouldn't be made in Jira, it probably shouldn't be made. On 24/01/2020, 08:56, "Benedict Elliott Smith" wrote: The common factor is flaky tests, not people. You get a clean run, you commit. Turns out, a test was flaky. This reduces trust in CI, so people commi

Re: [DISCUSS] Switch to using GitHub pull requests?

2020-01-24 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
PRs on clean runs won’t > achieve anything other than dealing with folks who straight up ignore the > spirit of the policy and knowingly commit code with test breakage that can > be attributed to their change. I’m not aware of such committers in this > community, however

Re: [DISCUSS] Client protocol changes (Was: 20200217 4.0 Status Update)

2020-02-18 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Behaviours don't have to be switched only with a new protocol version; it's possible to support optional feature/modifier flags, the support for which is negotiated with a client on connection. A protocol version change seems reasonable to limit to major releases, but a protocol feature seems p

Re: CircleCI config change?

2020-03-24 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
You could push to the repository that triggers CI less frequently? I don't think it cares about commits, but pushes. I think some people like to see feedback promptly, without having to go in manually until a dtest run is needed closer to patch completion. Unfortunately this is a situation wh

Re: CircleCI config change?

2020-03-24 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ose that work on a variety of machines over time, this does represent a sub-optimal arrangement. On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:38 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > You could push to the repository that triggers CI less frequently? I > don't thi

Re: Idea: Marking required scope for 4.0 GA vs. optional

2020-03-28 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I would personally prefer we simply bump tickets from the milestone periodically. The point of a milestone is to collect tickets we expect to land there, and since we want to release ASAP we should have at most a handful of optional items there sponsored by some community members, so the burden

Re: server side describe

2020-04-02 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Sorry if this is a repeat message; I messed up my mail client settings (I don't see it today, but it might just be stuck in an unmonitored moderator queue): I think it is unfair to label this scope creep; it would have to be newly considered for 4.0 for it to fall under that umbrella, surely? I

Re: server side describe

2020-04-04 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
There it is. I knew it would show up eventually. On 04/04/2020, 06:26, "bened...@apache.org" wrote: > scope creep. I think it is unfair to label this scope creep; it would have to be newly considered for 4.0 for it to fall under that umbrella. I don't personally mind if

Re: Keeping test-only changes out of CHANGES.txt

2020-04-08 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 08/04/2020, 16:53, "Mick Semb Wever" wrote: Can we agree on keeping such test changes out of CHANGES.txt ? We already don't put entries into CHANGES.txt if it is not a change from any previous release. There was some discussion before¹ about this, and the problem

Re: server side describe

2020-04-09 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> become much easier to agree on which tickets we put in 4.0. > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 1:25 AM Benedict Elliott Smith > > wrote: > > > There it is. I knew it would show up eventually.

Re: Shorter vote for a test side-project of Apache Cassandra

2020-04-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
This is a silly pet peeve. In this context it was unambiguous what was meant, and to snipe at people who do not have English as their first language in such an irrelevant context is a waste of everyone's time and energy. Please update your approach to the community. On 16/04/2020, 10:35, "Gr

Re: Shorter vote for a test side-project of Apache Cassandra

2020-04-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
such and do not assume negative intent. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:18 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > This is a silly pet peeve. In this context it was unambiguous what was meant, and to snipe at people who do not have English as their first language in such an ir

Re: Discussion: addition to CEP guide

2020-04-22 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1. This might also serve to produce specific points of discussion around the topic as the CEP progresses. Maybe put it high up the list, e.g. after Description of Approach? On 22/04/2020, 17:40, "Joshua McKenzie" wrote: Link to CEP guide: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/

Re: DataStax Driver Donation to Apache Cassandra Project

2020-04-22 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I welcome the donation, and hope we are able to accept all of the drivers. This is really great news IMO. I do however wonder if the project may be accumulating too many sub-projects? I wonder if it's time to think about splitting, and perhaps incubating a project for the drivers? On 22/0

Re: DataStax Driver Donation to Apache Cassandra Project

2020-04-23 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
above. On 22/04/2020, 21:25, "Nate McCall" wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:37 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > I welcome the donation, and hope we are able to accept all of the > drivers. This is really great news IMO. > > I do however won

Re: DataStax Driver Donation to Apache Cassandra Project

2020-04-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
pache fundation, and maybe I'm just stating the obvious here. [1] fwiw, I say this as someone that at some points in time was simultaneously somewhat actively involved in both Cassandra and the DataStax Java driver. -- Sylvain On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:54 AM Ben

Re: [DISCUSS] Remove cassandra-stress from project, or replace it, or have multiple stress tools?

2020-04-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I vote to nuke it post-4.0, when we have time to put together a working group to discuss its replacement. On 30/04/2020, 19:21, "Mick Semb Wever" wrote: The C* codebase contains the cassandra-stress tool that is seeing less maintenance and is getting replaced in popularity by other too

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA-13994

2020-05-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think our "pre-beta" criteria should also be our "not in a major" criteria. If work is prohibited because it invalidates our pre-release verification, then it should not land until we next perform pre-release verification, which only currently happens once per major. This could mean either l

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA-13994

2020-05-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
d important places but the important thing is > to see how exactly it touches, I think > - Considering it for alpha before the major testing in beta sounds > reasonable to me but I guess it also depends on people availability to > review it in detail and the exact

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA-13994

2020-05-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ow]" because it invalidates "4.0 Verification Work" must also be prohibited until "5.0 Dev" because the next equivalent work that can now validate it occurs only at "5.0 Verification Work" On 27/05/2020, 19:05, "Benedict Elliott Smith" wrote: I

Re: [DISCUSS] governance on the Apache Cassandra project

2020-06-04 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> It seems all rules on voting are predicated on the question being binary ASF votes are meant to be - as far as possible - a formality confirming consensus, or something to resolve irreconcilable disagreements. The discussion section describes how to build consensus when there are multiple o

Re: [DISCUSS] governance on the Apache Cassandra project

2020-06-04 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think the doc is a great place to reach agreement on things that are easily agreed - the final form will be moved to the wiki anyway, and voted on here. Anything that isn't readily agreed should be moved here for further discussion, in my opinion, to widen participation. On 04/06/2020, 22:4

Re: [DISCUSS] governance on the Apache Cassandra project

2020-06-04 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think the 24 hours point that was raised was pointed to being too short was just for the roll-call; I personally that think for closing down a discussion, 24 hours is acceptable in order to assist progress, since it should only be called when it's clear the discussion has halted or consensus h

Re: [DISCUSS] governance on the Apache Cassandra project

2020-06-04 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
rote: Oh, interesting. I checked the doc and didn't see a time frame on the roll call but maybe I just missed it. I'll open it up for comments either way. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:51 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > I think the 24 hours point that was raised was

Re: [DISCUSS] Considering when to push tickets out of 4.0

2020-06-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
So, if it helps matters: I am explicitly -1 the prior version of this work due to the technical concerns expressed here and on the ticket. So we either need to revert that patch or incorporate 15299. On 16/06/2020, 21:48, "Mick Semb Wever" wrote: > > 2) Alternatively, it's been 3 yea

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 16/06/2020, 22:23, "Nate McCall" wrote: +1 (binding) On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 4:19 AM Joshua McKenzie wrote: > Added unratified draft to the wiki here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Apache+Cassandra+Project+Governance > > I pr

Re: [DISCUSS] Considering when to push tickets out of 4.0

2020-06-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ave a alpha release)? This has been confusing me since beta has a lot of work pending… sorry for not bring this up in a dedicated dev@ thread > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 4:58 PM Benedict Elliott Smith > wrote: > >> So, if it helps matters: I am explicit

Re: [DISCUSS] Considering when to push tickets out of 4.0

2020-06-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ts surfaced by a diverse collection of users and I'd like to see us move in that direction again for the long-term health of the project. Hence my attempts to move us towards beta and take on an awareness campaign and call to action for the community to engage in testing.) O

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Sorry, I've been busy so not paid as close attention as I would like after initial contributions to the formulation. On the document I raised this as an issue, and proposed lowering the "low watermark" to a simple majority of the electorate - since if you have both a simple majority of the "act

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ou're concerned about, or just musing over? On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:21 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > Sorry, I've been busy so not paid as close attention as I would like after > initial contributions to the formulation. On the document I raised this as &g

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> > > > Yeah, I didn't think you were serious about it being a problem, just > wanted > > to check. > > > > I'm changing my vote to a -1, in favor of a simple majority as the low > > watermark in vote participation (not appr

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
at 12:30 PM Jon Haddad wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > I'm not concerned today, no, just musing and pointing out that >>> there >>> > are >>> > > easy ways to improve progress if we find there's an impedi

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-18 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
thing that would be a non-issue assuming positive intent and > > alignment > > > between response to roll call and participation. > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:08 PM Yifan Cai wrote: > > > > > >> +1 nb > > &g

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc

2020-06-18 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
but not so much that I think we'll end up backed into a corner. I didn't do a good job of explaining that though. Might be useful to take a roll call now just to get a feel for what we're voting for. On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:21 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wr

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc (take 2)

2020-06-22 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
If you read the clauses literally there's no conflict - not all committers that +1 the change need to review the work. It just means that two committers have indicated they are comfortable with the patch being merged. One of the +1s could be based on another pre-existing review and trust in bo

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc (take 2)

2020-06-22 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Also, +1 On 22/06/2020, 11:23, "Benedict Elliott Smith" wrote: If you read the clauses literally there's no conflict - not all committers that +1 the change need to review the work. It just means that two committers have indicated they are comfortable with the patch bei

Re: [VOTE] Project governance wiki doc (take 2)

2020-06-25 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
The purpose of this document is to define only how the project makes decisions, and it lists "tenets" of conduct only as a preamble for interpreting the rules on decision-making. The authors' intent was to lean on this to minimise the rigidity and prescriptiveness in the formulation of the rule

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-26 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
--> Branching anytime before we 4.0.0 adds extra burden to the folks trying to get 4.0.0 This. This is all that matters IMO. Some have been saying 4.0.0 is very delayed, and that this harms the project - and they're right. So I'm surprised to see those same voices advocating we prioritise th

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-26 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Ok, I'm sorry for reaching the opposite conclusion before reading this email - the implication here instead appears to be that, you believe, people are advocating to integrate work that should be deferred - is that correct? Perhaps we should have a direct conversation about the tickets you cons

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-26 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> Nothing is stopping us for discussing CEPs now, and nothing prevents folks > from making their own feature branches. I disagree. CEPs are just as - if not more - of a distraction than branching. Work doesn't happen in a vacuum. Those who are today focusing what resources they can on shippin

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-26 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ests, or you pay money to be able to run the tests... If the intent is to make it easier for new people to contribute to the project, shouldn't the focus be on fixing their pain points such as testing? On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jordan West wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> Just a heads up - this comes across as passive aggressive sniping. I'm sure > you didn't mean it as such I think indirect criticism is a normal part of discourse, particularly in public fora where it can be more polite and less disruptive than direct criticism. Ironically, this snippet of yo

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-29 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 12:07 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > Just a heads up - this comes across as passive aggressive sniping. I'm > sure you didn't mean it as such > > I think indirect criticism is a normal part of discourse, particula

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-29 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
need both new features/improvements and stability. It is natural that some people push a bit more towards new features\improvements and others towards stability. I would be worried if everybody wanted to go in the same direction. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:22 PM Benedict Elliott Smi

Re: [DISCUSS] When to branch 4.0

2020-06-29 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
and it does not push me in a direction or another. Of course, our opinions are somehow tainted by our organizations but that does not mean that individuals can be reduced to their organization.> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:33 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > I bel

Re: [DISCUSS] Future of MVs

2020-06-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I think, just as importantly, we also need to grapple with what went wrong when features landed this way, since these were not isolated occurrences - suggesting structural issues were at play. I'm not sure if a retrospective is viable with this organisational structure, but we can perhaps engag

Re: [DISCUSS] Future of MVs

2020-06-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I don't think we can realistically expect majors, with the deprecation cycle they entail, to come every six months. If nothing else, we would have too many versions to maintain at once. I personally think all the project needs on that front is clearer roadmapping at the start of a release cycl

Re: [DISCUSS] Future of MVs

2020-06-30 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ere are no plans to stop working on it going forward. On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 5:45 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > I don't think we can realistically expect majors, with the deprecation > cycle they entail, to come every six months. If nothing else, we would

Re: [DISCUSS] Future of MVs

2020-07-01 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
I humbly suggest these are the wrong questions to ask. Instead, two sides of just one question matter: how did we miss these problems, and what would we have needed to do procedurally to have not missed it. Whatever it is, we need to do it now to have confidence other things were not missed, a

Re: [DISCUSS] Future of MVs

2020-07-02 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Yep, agreed this is definitely the best route forwards. On 02/07/2020, 01:10, "Joshua McKenzie" wrote: Plays pretty cleanly into the "have a test plan" we modded in last month. +1 On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:43 PM Nate McCall wrote: > > > > > > > > If so, I propose we se

Re: [VOTE] Release dtest-api 0.0.3

2020-07-03 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 03/07/2020, 10:57, "Oleksandr Petrov" wrote: Proposing the test build of in-jvm dtest API 0.0.3 for release. Repository: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra-in-jvm-dtest-api.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/0.0.3 Candidate SHA: https://github.com/apache/cassan

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-14 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
It does raise the bar to critiquing the document though, but perhaps that's also a feature. Perhaps we can first discuss the purpose of the document? It seems to be a mix of mission statement for the project, as well as your own near term roadmap? Should we interpret it only as an advertisemen

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-15 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
that's table stakes. But agreeing on how we > get > > there, my personal take is we'd all be well served to spend our energy > > Doing the Work and expressing these complementary positions rather than > > trying to bend everyone to one consistent poin

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
gagement with the project outside a small subset of the population with resources to dedicate to this type of testing which I think we don't want. On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:53 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > Perhaps you could clarify what you personally hope w

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1

2020-07-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
-1 Sorry, I dropped the ball on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15375 It's ready to commit, if somebody can give it a quick +1, and would be prohibited after first beta. On 16/07/2020, 21:16, "Sumanth Pasupuleti" wrote: +1 nb Ran following CircleCI tests j8_uni

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1

2020-07-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
etc) with marketing material and the ASF blog post that's lined up for the project. On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 5:14 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > -1 > > Sorry, I dropped the ball on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15375 &

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1

2020-07-17 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
t of diminishing returns and we're fine just being a bit more laissez-faire about things and applying our collective judgement through our votes on each instance. My own bias though, definitely receptive to other points of view on that. On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:21 AM B

Re: Media coordination (was: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1)

2020-07-20 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Thanks Sally, really appreciate your insight. To respond to the community discourse around this: > Keep your announcement plans ... private: limit discussions to the PMC This is all that I was asking and expecting: if somebody is making commitments on behalf of the community (such as that a rel

Re: Media coordination (was: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1)

2020-07-20 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ause of the action you took; Actually, in this case and many others it's because of people's unfounded assumptions about motives, incentives, and actions taken and has little to do with reality. Which is the definition of not assuming positive intent. On Mon, Jul 20,

Re: Media coordination (was: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1)

2020-07-20 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
not taking this discussion further. Just want to call it out here so you or others aren't left waiting for a reply. We can agree to disagree. On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:59 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > Firstly, that is a very strong claim that in this particul

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA Jira modification - add Doc Impact field

2020-07-31 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Impacts -> Docs It's not mandatory, but we could perhaps consider making it so somewhere in the workflow. Do you have a good suggestion for where? There's also "Test and Documentation Plan" which is already mandatory. On 31/07/2020, 20:28, "Lorina Poland" wrote: This morning, Caleb Rac

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA Jira modification - add Doc Impact field

2020-07-31 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
nt, I can look at the code and figure out what it does. A topic like audit logging is likely to use many classes and touch on many items that I'm not familiar with nor be the most readable code. Lorina Poland On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:35 PM Benedict Elliott Smith w

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA Jira modification - add Doc Impact field

2020-07-31 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
when Impacts = Docs. Thanks for the info, Benedict! Lorina Poland On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 1:10 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > It is mandatory to move a ticket to "In Progress" > > I think you are mistaken; I have triple-checked, a

Re: Feedback request on minor JMX interface incompatibility for CASSANDRA-15937

2020-08-06 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
+1 On 06/08/2020, 10:07, "Michael Semb Wever" wrote: > I think the pragmatic thing to do is fix it now, and I'd strongly > prefer to do that but wanted to check if there are any objections or > things I hadn't considered? +1 Thanks for giving this visibility and demonstr

Re: [Vote] Remove Windows support from 4.0+

2020-08-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
Have we considered first asking the user list if there's anyone willing to donate resources to maintain compatibility? I know I have in the (distant) past handled Jira filed by (production) Windows users. I don’t know how prevalent they are, but perhaps we should offer them a chance to step up

Re: [Vote] Remove Windows support from 4.0+

2020-08-10 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
ail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg60234.html Jordan On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 4:16 AM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > Have we considered first asking the user list if there's anyone willing to > donate resources to maintain compatibility? > >

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