Re: Local getting started tool

[Chris Splinter]

Thanks all for the feedback here, much appreciated.

My takeaways are:
1. Tools that are not governed by the project will not be listed on the
primary downloads page
2. A tool like this could be listed on the 3rd party / community page,
provided that it doesn't have a prohibitive license
3. There's room to improve the existing 3rd party / community page to make
it easier for users to find community-built tooling and a Jira+PR would
suffice to update that

If I missed anything let me know,

Chris

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 8:14 AM Erick Ramirez 
wrote:

> >
> > ...  However, there is a community page that has things like books
> > & publications.  I think it could be helpful to add a 3rd party projects
> > section to that page, as there's a number of useful utilities like
> reaper,
> > tlp-stress, the various K8 operators, instaclustr's sstable tools, etc.
> >
>
> Brilliant idea, Jon. Making the tools and operators from Instaclustr,
> Orange and TLP easily located by users is a good thing. :)
>

Local getting started tool

[Chris Splinter]

Hi all,

A few developers have been working on a tool to make it easier for users to
learn and get started with Cassandra on a local machine. With this tool it
just requires a few clicks to get started and there's built-in examples. If
you're interested in checking it out it's hosted here:
https://downloads.datastax.com/#desktop

We'd love to get a feel for your interest and thoughts on whether a vendor
neutral, open-source version of this tool supporting C* and Kubernetes as a
starter could be referenced as an installation option on the downloads
page: https://cassandra.apache.org/download/

Let me know what you think,

Chris