I think we should get serious about the so-called freeze. On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:27 PM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, > > I was looking through our open JIRAs and realized we hadn't merged in > server side describe calls yet. The ticket died off a ways ago, and I > pinged Chris about it yesterday. He's got a lot of his plate and won't be > able to work on it anytime soon. I still think we should include this in > 4.0. > > From a technical standpoint, It doesn't say much on the ticket after Robert > tossed an alternative patch out there. I don't mind reviewing and merging > either of them, it sounded like both are pretty close to done and I think > from the perspective of updating drivers for 4.0 this will save quite a bit > of time since driver maintainers won't have to add new CQL generation for > the various new options that have recently appeared. > > Questions: > > * Does anyone have an objection to getting this into 4.0? The patches > aren't too huge, I think they're low risk, and also fairly high reward. > * I don't have an opinion (yet) on Robert's patch vs Chris's, with regard > to which is preferable. > * Since soon after Robert put up his PR he hasn't been around, at least as > far as I've seen. How have we dealt with abandoned patches before? If > we're going to add this in the patch will need some cleanup. Is it > reasonable to continue someone else's work when they've disappeared? > > Jon > -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
