Will CQL be included in the 1.0 release? // Germán Kondolf http://twitter.com/germanklf http://code.google.com/p/seide/
On 12/01/2011, at 01:29, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:35 -0600, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> Way back in Nov 09, we did a users survey and asked what features >> people wanted to see. Here was my summary of the responses: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org/msg01446.html >> >> Looking at that, we've done essentially all of them. I think we can >> make a strong case that our next release should be 1.0; it's >> production ready, it's reasonably feature-complete, it's documented, >> and we know what our upgrade path story is. > > -0 > > I've said it elsewhere, but the only reason to fuss about a 1.0, is that > it is loaded with special meaning. To impart some vague notion of > readiness on people who should be paying less attention to a number, and > doing more due diligence. Feels like pandering to me, or cargo-culting. > > I'd rather drop the leading the 0 and continue to number releases > sequentially the way we have. If our < 1 versioning is signaling a lack > of readiness, and if >= 1 is a necessary gate, then 8.0 should work > equally as well. Better in fact, 8 times better! > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@rackspace.com >
