Congratulations Jay! On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm late. Mea culpa. I blame February for only having 28 days. > > The following contributors had their first ever commit into the project > (since the last time I made this list, which was late 2017)! > > Johannes Grassler > Michael Burman > Nicolas GUYOMAR > Alex Ott > Samuel Roberts > Dinesh Joshi > Amichai Rothman > Vince White > Sumanth Pasupuleti > Samuel Fink > Alexander Dejanovski > Dimitar Dimitrov > Kevin Wern > Yuji Ito > > Jay Zhuang was recently added as a committer. Congrats Jay! > > There are some notably active topics to which I'd like to draw your > attention, in case you haven't been reading email or following JIRA: > > 1) There's been a lot of talk about docs. There are a lot of new JIRAs for > filling in the doc sections. Some of these could use review and commit ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14128? > jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20AND%20component%20%3D%20% > 22Documentation%20and%20Website%22%20and%20status% > 20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22 > ) , some of them still need content ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20% > 3D%20CASSANDRA%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Documentation%20and% > 20Website%22%20and%20status%20%3D%20Open > ). A friendly reminder for anyone writing docs: respect other peoples' > copyrights. This hasn't been a problem (as far as I can tell), but while > other people/companies have written docs that are probably relevant, please > don't go copying them verbatim. Docs should be some of the lowest bar to > entry for new contributors - there's a nice howto here if you don't know > how to contribute docss > http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/development/documentation.html ) > > 2) There's a lot of activity around audit logging ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12151 ) . There's a few > other related tickets (Stefan's internal auditing events > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13668 , and the > full-query-log patch at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13983 ), but there's also > a > few different goals (as Joseph Lynch pointed out, there's at least 4 - > security, compliance / SOX / PCI, replayability, debugging). If you're in > the class of user that cares about these features (any of the 4), you > should probably consider visiting that thread and reading the discussion. > > 3) Lerh Chuan Low has done a LOT of work on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8460 (tiered storage). If > you have any sort of desire to mix spinning+SSD disks in a single server, > you may want to weigh in on the design. > > 4) There was an interesting conversation about performance of latency > metrics. Started here: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e7067b3a8048ee62d4932064220333 > 9dc0f466fec6b3fdf6db575ad6@%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E > > > 5) There are two or three different JIRAs/fixes floating around for the 2 > stupid MV unit tests that keep timing out. At least two of them were opened > by committers, and I think both were reviewed by committers - please settle > on one and commit it. > > Finally: If you're interested in learning more about cassandra from other > users, the mailing list and JIRA have both been pretty busy this month, and > that's nice. There are also Cassandra meetup groups all over the world - if > you haven't ever attended one, I encourage you to find one (I'm not going > to link to any, because I don't want it to look like there are any > "official" groups, but search your favorite sites, you'll likely find one > near you). > > I'm Jeff Jirsa, and this was the February 2018 Cassandra Dev Wrapup. > -- Dikang
