Perfection is the enemy of the good enough. All if not most informed open source users understand that the tar they are downloading is “unsupported.”
Most of the blog posts people read or the documentation they have is in place of tools. Open source software let alone Tooling even a nascent version comes with a degree of uncertainty. If the question is for me: I would rather use something that exists than reinvent the wheel. The same way I’ll use “contrib” packages in any system just to see if it works. Example: While working on on a Solr / Kafka / Cassandra integration project we must have used a few different “Kafka Connect” variations before settling on a solution which was a combination of an existing sink connector and created a source connector because what was out there “meh”. If we had scoffed off “unsupported” packages we would have spent more time making something than delivering value. Technology exists to serve business and people’s lives not technology itself. There is a level of discernment that comes with experience as to what works and what doesn’t and what is good and what isn’t. The least we can do is help the user community know the difference : as Apache does at a higher level. Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 250 Washington, D.C. 20007 We build and manage digital business technology platforms. On Sep 29, 2018, 5:29 PM -0400, sankalp kohli <kohlisank...@gmail.com>, wrote: > Thanks Dinesh for looking at the tools and thanks Mick for listing them > down. > Based on Dinesh response, is it accurate to say that for bulk > functionality, we have evaluated the tools listed by the community? If > anything is missed we should discuss it as we want to make sure we looked > at all aspects before implementation starts. > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 1:19 PM Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.jo...@yahoo.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > > On Sep 29, 2018, at 12:31 PM, Rahul Singh <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > All of Apache is a patchwork of tools. All of Open Source is a patchwork > > of tools. All of Linux is a patchwork of tools. > > > > > > What works, works. > > > > So there isn't a way to make it any better? You would prefer using an > > unsupported tool vs something that worked out of the box & was well tested? > > > > Dinesh > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > >
