Hey Jonathan, I have been hoping for this approach for years now-one of the reasons I left Datastax was due to my feeling that quality was always on the backburner and never really taken seriously vs marketing driven releases.
I sincerely hope this approach reverses that perceived trend. -- Colin +1 612 859 6129 Skype colin.p.clark > On Apr 2, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We are moving away from designating major releases like 3.0 as "special," > other than as a marker of compatibility. In fact we are moving away from > major releases entirely, with each release being a much smaller, digestible > unit of change, and the ultimate goal of every even release being > production-quality. > > This means that bugs won't pile up and compound each other. And bugs that > do slip through will affect less users. As 3.x stabilizes, more people > will try out the releases, yielding better quality, yielding even more > people trying them out in a virtuous cycle. > > This won't just happen by wishing for it. I am very serious about > investing the energy we would have spent on backporting fixes to a "stable" > branch, into improving our QA process and test coverage. After a very > short list of in-progress features that may not make the 3.0 cutoff (#6477, > #6696 come to mind) I'm willing to virtually pause new feature development > entirely to make this happen. > > Some patience will be necessary with the first few releases. But at this > point, people are used to about six months of waiting for a new major to > stabilize. So, let's give this a try until 3.6. If that still hasn't > materially stabilized, then we need to go back to the drawing board. But > I'm optimistic that it will. > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: >> >> In this tick tock cycle, is there still a long term release that's >> maintained, meant for production? Will bug fixes be back ported to 3.0 >> (stable) with new stuff going forward to 3.x? > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > @spyced
