I've been in the Cassandra community for about 10 years now and I've seen a lot of ups and downs. I care deeply about both the project and the people interacting on the project personally. I consider many of you to be good friends.
Regardless of the history that's caused some friction on recent discussion threads, I hope we can all see past the "us versus them" towards shipping something excellent and building momentum. I would just ask - please assume that everyone wants the project to succeed - to build the best, most stable, most scalable, most developer and operationally friendly database out there. Please know that while you personally may have seen X clusters in your work with Y nodes with Z challenges, you're in good company - we all have. Let's assume that everyone has a unique contribution based on battle scars and triumphs. As we listen to each other with this in mind, I think we can move forward more effectively. There are so many complementary efforts that can help make things more stable, reproduce issues and test for regressions now. As we get into the final stages of the 4.0 release cycle, I think we can bring all of this to bear for the best release we've ever had. We all have different viewpoints but please let's assume the best in others and communicate constructively. We all have things to contribute - large or small - and it's great to see renewed interest with new contributors. With all of the energy leading up to the release, I think we're seeing a glimpse of what we can do as a revitalized project and community and this is just the beginning. Thanks for all you do, Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
