Sorry for the 2 week no-show! Let's see where we are now on 4.0: The board can be found here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355
[LHF] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1726&quickFilter=1658 We have 2 tickets that are Low Hanging Fruit without assignees. If you're looking to get engaged and help move the release forward, these are great candidates! [Tickets That Need Attention] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&quickFilter=1723&quickFilter=1719 We have 10 beta issues that are in the "Needs Attention" (stalled, needs reviewer) bucket. While not as pressing as the Alpha tickets, please raise a flag if you could use some help either on collaboration or on a review [Alpha Status] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&quickFilter=1723 We're down to 3 bugs in Alpha. I've poked a couple of people about the two that are well on their way, and it looks like Joey and Ekaterina are well engaged on the one in progress. Great work here! Being 3 tickets away from cutting Beta 1 is a pretty big achievement. [Beta Status] Referencing the above link, we have 15 bugs or tasks in beta. 10 of those are the Needs Attention referred to above and we have 6 that are backlogged in ToDo status. If you have tickets assigned to you that are flagged beta but don't currently have cycles to work on them, consider pinging in the #cassandra-dev channel on slack or hitting up the dev ML to see if there's anyone else with interest and cycles to help out there. Also: being 18 total tickets away from cutting our first RC for 4.0 is pretty spectacular IMO. :) [Needs Reviewer] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=detail&selectedIssue=CASSANDRA-15560&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1659 We have one ticket that's RC flagged that's missing a reviewer (Change LZ4Compressor to LZ4SafeDecompressor). [Open vs. Closed Last 21 Days & Cumulative Flow] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport.jspa?projectOrFilterId=filter-12348585&periodName=daily&daysprevious=21&cumulative=true&versionLabels=major&selectedProjectId=12310865&reportKey=com.atlassian.jira.jira-core-reports-plugin%3Acreatedvsresolved-report&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED_9340412df581ebf97c07577c653b8288843dc555_lin&Next=Next Given it's been a few weeks (?!) since this last email, I'm going for the "cumulative created vs. resolved issues) report on 4.0 in aggregate. Looks pretty good: 60 tickets closed, 32 or so opened. That's some great net progress on the release. The Cumulative Flow Diagram gives a solid visual representation of the same: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=reporting&chart=cumulativeFlowDiagram&swimlane=939&swimlane=936&swimlane=931&column=1505&column=1506&column=1514&column=1509&column=1512&column=1507&from=2020-04-07&to=2020-04-28 Growing body of Done tickets, less in ToDo, and less in the various review states in general. [Icebergs] There's 6 tickets in BLOCKED status in the rc release, all linked to the 40_Quality_Test epic, that I'm a little wary of. Those are probably our largest unidentified and unspecified scope outstanding to hitting a 4.0 GA, but they're also incredibly important for us to "do right" as a project in order to have 4.0 be a truly stable and production ready release. If you have a point of view on those tickets, please take a little time to share that PoV on there and help unstick them, since there are contributors available to be executing on those tests in parallel while we're executing on closing up our alpha and beta phases. Great progress on 4.0, and great collaboration across the project. It's been really heartening to see the increased discussion on the ML and on slack. Thanks for the attention, time, and energy everyone's putting into this release. Sorry for the delay, and as always please let us know if there's something you'd like to see in these emails that's not present now. ~Josh
