I'd love to put a "Planet Cassandra" aggregator together. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ed Anuff <e...@anuff.com> wrote: > I think that what's being asked for isn't so much announcements as > some sort of way of communicating or summarizing roadmap. However, in > practical matters, I'm not sure how this can be done in a mailing list > form. Anything that gets "announced" as roadmap is either so far > along that it's not roadmap anymore it's a release announcement, or > it's not being announced, it's being presented as an idea for comment, > in which case that's what the dev mailing list and JIRA are for. > > I think the right venue for this is might be a official blog for the > project where direction can be discussed at a lower level than maybe > it would on the Datastax blog but at a higher level summarizing where > certain features are going, etc. Also, would be a place where links > to useful blog posts by others in the community could be posted. > > Ed > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's exactly the kind of thing that *shouldn't* be on an announce >> list (and stay on the dev list), precisely because it deals with >> internals that users don't care about. >> >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:18 AM, David Boxenhorn <da...@citypath.com> wrote: >>> 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. >>>> >>> >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Ellis >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support >> http://www.datastax.com >> >
-- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
