Nobody's forcing you to upgrade. If you want twice as much time between upgrading, just wait for 1.2. In the meantime, people who need the features in 1.1 also get those early (no, running trunk in production isn't a serious option). I don't see any real benefit for you in forcing your preference on everyone, and I see a big negative for some.
It's also worth noting that waiting for 2x as many features for freeze will result in MORE than 2x as much complexity for tracking down regressions. Given the limited testing we get during freeze, I think that's a pretty strong argument in favor of more-frequent, smaller releases. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Radim Kolar <h...@sendmail.cz> wrote: > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg01549.html > > I read it but things are different now because magic 1.0 is out. If you > implement 1.0 and put it into production, you really do not want to retest > app on new version every 4 months and its unlikely that you will get > migration approved by management unless you present clear benefits for such > migration. Compression was nice new feature of 1.0 but it was rejected by > lot of IT managers as "too risky" for now. > > While you can test application quite easily, testing cluster stability is > way harder in test environment because its not usually possible to fully > replicate workload and data volume in test environment and migration back is > difficult because Cassandra currently does not have tool for fast sstable > downgrade (1.0 -> 0.8). > > For production use long time between major releases is better. I would > double time between major releases, maybe not for 1.1/1.2 but later for > sure. Take look at postgresql project, they release 1 major version per > year and they support 4 major versions for bugfixes and older postgresql > versions are still common in production. > > Did you asked people running mission critical workloads about their opinion? > Another possibility is to use ISV like Datastax to provide long term > support. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
