The are a few tickets affecting the public API that Rackspace would really like to see make it into the 0.7-beta, since they will be very difficult to apply once a mass of people have gone through the readTablesFromYaml process.
In particular, we'd like to see 1066, 1237 and the portion of 1271 modifying AccessLevel block 0.7-beta, but we're fairly certain these can be knocked out this week. Thanks, Stu -----Original Message----- From: "Chris Goffinet" <c...@chrisgoffinet.com> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:56pm To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Cc: cassandra-...@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Almost time for 0.7 beta? +1. Digg has been holding off until at least beta before testing. I'd love to start this as soon as possible. -Chris On Jul 24, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > At the time of our last update [1], I estimated it would be 4 to 6 > weeks until a 0.7 beta. That was over 8 weeks ago. Although we've > never adhered to a strict release schedule, I'm feeling more and more > like we need to stop delaying getting what is already done into > peoples' hands. > > Wide row support was the main "blocker" in my mind for 0.7, and that > was complete a month ago. [2] Basic secondary index support will be > also be done in the next few days (see subtasks to [3]). I propose > rolling a beta release next Friday and a release candidate two weeks > after that; anything not ready at that point can wait until 0.7.1 or > 0.8. > > The bad news is, vector clocks [4] and the Avro client api [5] will > probably not be ready for the beta but may be ready for the release > candidate. I would be okay putting those directly into the RC since > they are completely optional and will not affect users who want to > ignore them. (That is, more than they already have, with the Clock > struct in the Thrift API.) But I don't want to slip the schedule any > more to wait for them. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg00404.html > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16 > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-749 > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-580 > [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-926 > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://riptano.com
