Someone once said: "I heard the expression recently that “there are ten ways to do this, and eight of them will work.” I think that applies to most of the code we write. We don't need to spend a lot of time discussing which of the eight is best; let’s trust the judgement of the original author and move forward. "
Had we applied that principle to this JIRA the first time the patch was available in OCTOBER 2018, we wouldn't be having a conversation about whether or not it violates a freeze. On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:37 AM Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
