Hi Nate,
Most of the JIRAs in the middle are being rebased or being
reviewed and code is already out there. These will make 4.0 a very solid
release.
Thanks,
Sankalp
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
> We are happy to start testing against completed features. Ideally once
> everything is ready for an RC (to catch interaction bugs), but we can do
> sooner for features where it make sense and are finished earlier.
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 at 16:47 Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To sum up that other thread (I very much appreciate everyone's input,
> > btw), here is an aggregate list of large, breaking 4.0 proposed
> > changes:
> >
> > CASSANDRA-9425 Immutable node-local schema
> > CASSANDRA-10699 Strongly consistent schema alterations
> > --
> > CASSANDRA-12229 NIO streaming
> > CASSANDRA-8457 NIO messaging
> > CASSANDRA-12345 Gossip 2.0
> > CASSANDRA-9754 Birch trees
> > CASSANDRA-11559 enhanced node representation
> > CASSANDRA-6246 epaxos
> > CASSANDRA-7544 storage port configurable per node
> > --
> > CASSANDRA-11115 remove thrift support
> > CASSANDRA-10857 dropping compact storage
> >
> > Again, this is the "big things that will probably break stuff" list
> > and thus should happen with a major (did I miss anything?). There
> > were/are/will be other smaller issues, but we don't really need to
> > keep them in front of us for this discussion as they can/will just
> > kind of happen w/o necessarily affecting anything else.
> >
> > That all said, since we are 'doing a software' we need to start
> > thinking about the above in balance with resources and time. However,
> > a lot of the above items do have a substantial amount of code written
> > against them so it's not as daunting as it seems.
> >
> > What I would like us to discuss is rough timelines and what is needed
> > to get these out the door.
> >
> > One thing that sticks out to me: that big chunk in the middle there is
> > coming out of the same shop in Cupertino. I'm nervous about that. Not
> > that that ya'll are not capable, I'm solely looking at it from the
> > "that is a big list of some pretty hard shit" perspective.
> >
> > So what else do we need to discuss to get these completed? How and
> > where can other folks pitch in?
> >
> > -Nate
> >
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