+1. It's finally time. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thrift has been officially frozen for almost two years and unofficially for > longer. [1] Meanwhile, maintaining Thrift support through changes like > 8099 has been a substantial investment. > > I propose deprecating Thrift now and removing support in 4.0, i.e. Nov 2016 > if tick-tock goes as planned. > > I note that only 7% of our survey respondents [2] are using Thrift-only, > and and those users are often on old releases (1.1 and 1.2), i.e. unlikely > to upgrade to 4.x anyway. > > Another 20% of users are using a mix of Thrift and CQL. Some have been > unable to completely migrate because CQL doesn’t quite provide every > feature from Thrift. The last such outstanding issue is mixing static and > dynamic Thrift “columns” in a single table. We have an issue open to > address this [3]. > > I think it is reasonable to either deprecate Thrift immediately in 3.2 or > to wait until 10857 is committed in 3.4. > > [1] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-dev/201403.mbox/%3ccaldd-zim6knmr7f_zcpvpqk0b2g919tttathiuofnvlztaw...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > [2] > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FegCArZgj2DNAjNkcXi1n2Y1Kfvf6cdZedkMPYQdvC0/edit#gid=0 > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857 > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > @spyced >
