Hello project, and welcome to your much delayed issue of “The Path to 4.0 GA”.We haven’t had these for a while but discussed their value on the last contributor call, so let’s get back in the saddle.
Link to the freshly renamed JIRA board: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661 Top level: We have 2 Alpha issues, 61 Beta issues, and 20 RC issues to go before GA Some interesting high level metrics on the release: We have closed a total of 1341 tickets in 4.0: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12348585&jql=project%20%3D%20cassandra%20AND%20fixversion%20in%20(4.0%2C%204.0.0%2C%204.0-alpha%2C%204.0-alpha1%2C%204.0-alpha2%2C%204.0-alpha3%2C%204.0-alpha4%2C%204.0-beta%2C%204.0-beta1%2C%204.0-beta2%2C%204.0-beta3%2C%204.0-beta4%2C%204.0-rc)%20AND%20resolution%20!%3D%20unresolved With our outstanding scope of 84 open issues, we have 5.9% by raw ticket count to go before GA! Another view: in the past 45 days, here’s our view of our created vs. closed rate: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport.jspa?projectOrFilterId=filter-12347782&periodName=daily&daysprevious=45&cumulative=true&versionLabels=major&selectedProjectId=12310865&reportKey=com.atlassian.jira.jira-core-reports-plugin%3Acreatedvsresolved-report&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED_a3bea645259beee42ed00c68f87626d5972705c4_lin&Next=Next The impressive spike in ticket openings was Benjamin tearing through creating the new testing for metrics so we should expect those to close out quite rapidly as people focus on them. [Where you can help] *No assignee: 19 total 16 Beta issues and 3 RC issues Please take a look and see if it’s within your skillset to take any of these on if you have the cycles: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1658 *Needs Reviewer: 8 tickets 5 Beta and 3 RC issues are awaiting review without reviewer: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1659 *Adding tests: 5 tickets (note: Board quick filter added for this) Benjamin created some child tickets on the 40_Quality_Test epic to better test our metrics - if you’ve been thinking about getting involved on the project these are probably great candidates to get your feet wet and improve the coverage and stability of the system. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&selectedIssue=CASSANDRA-16192&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1939&quickFilter=1658 *7-day stall As we get closer to the release, we should tighten our window on what we consider “stalled”. There’s a quick filter for “hasn’t been updated in over a week” which shows just over half the entire open corpus of work hasn’t moved in the last week. Let’s make it a point to brush up our gmail filters and workflow habits to keep these from slipping through the cracks on async handoffs (and from me hounding you on slack =/) https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1694 Thanks everyone for the continued hard work on the project, and expect to see these emails from one of your local J's on a weekly basis starting the week of the 26th. ~Josh
