I would like to see this list also used for announcing upcoming features. At some point a decision is made that some future version will include some important feature. I don't want that information to be buried in a JIRA ticket or a user/dev list discussion.
For example, I was surprised to learn, by accident, from http://www.slideshare.net/mattdennis/cassandra-antipatterns , that supercolumns will be replaced, internally, by composite columns. This is something that we've discussed in the past, and that I have advocated myself, but until now I have seen no indication that it would be done, or that it was even viewed favorably by a consensus of decision makers. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Nick Bailey <n...@datastax.com> wrote: > DataStax has had requests for something like this. It seems like > something that would be generally useful for the community though. > > Regarding twitter, I'm not sure a twitter account should be required > to get that information. I think you can follow a twitter account as > an rss feed though, so that might be a solution. That and the google > alert or email filter solutions just seem to be introducing more > difficulty for anyone trying to get that information. Perhaps the > demand for this isn't as high as I am imagining though. > > My opinion on the list if we decide to go with that is that only > committers would be able to post to it and yes it would go to the > users list as well. > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> > wrote: > > I have mixed feeling about that. > > > > On the one side, I agree with Gary that it doesn't add any real value. > > There is twitter, > > and we use consistent tagged subjects for release email, so it's easy > > to subscribe > > to the user list and set up a filter. > > > > That being said, I could understand that some people may find it > > cleaner to have a > > separate announce list and it is not something unheard of, so I'm ok > > with that if enough > > people thinks it's a good idea. But I think there is at least 2 > > questions that come along: > > - should it be moderated ? > > - should announces still be sent to the user list ? > > > > -- > > Sylvain > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Gary Dusbabek <gdusba...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Following @cassandra on twitter or a google alert would be simple enough > I > >> think. > >> > >> Gary. > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 14:26, Nick Bailey <n...@datastax.com> wrote: > >> > >>> What do we think about having a separate mailing list for just > >>> cassandra related announcements. The main purpose being announcing new > >>> releases once they pass a vote and are put up on the website. I think > >>> there is a desire for a way to be informed when new releases are > >>> available without sifting through the dev or users mailing lists. > >>> > >> > > >
