Back to Mondays. We'll be covering about a week and a half here to get ourselves back to a biweekly cadence.
[New contributors getting started] As a new contributor you have a couple great options for getting started: Failing tests, and what we call "lhf" (low hanging fruit). Query for failing tests: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=496 Query for unassigned lhf: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2162&quickFilter=2160 Don't let failing tests fool you - in Cassandra they often turn out to be incredibly interesting (and tricky) to get to the bottom of. Right now we're at 28 failing, 26 of which are in the backlog and many of them without assignees. For unassigned lhf, we have 11 on 4.0.2 to pick from and 14 on 4.1.0, so quite the selection if you're looking to get started. [Dev list discussions in the past 10 days] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@cassandra.apache.org:lte=10d: The headliner of this past week and a half has been continued discussion around transactions in Cassandra, CEP-15, and the tradeoffs we want to pursue as a project. A lot of folks have chimed in already but, if you haven't and have a perspective or experience you'd like to share please take the time to do so. CEP-16, Auth Plugin Support for CQLSH is undergoing a vote and things look promising so far. Benedict surfaced CASSANDRA-17024 ( https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf428670e07e59ce756f6f7891510f4c8eea82da2c145ec85942c5723%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E), a ticket dealing with artificial latency injection for testing. The question came up there on the best way to expose this API to users of it and the tradeoff on the number of consistency levels we expose to users and a potential future in which we simplify and constrain those. Last but most definitely not least, Lorina Poland has done a TON of work on docs and there's a thread discussing how we want to go about integrating the contents of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16763. The standing suggestion seems to be to house that work under the epic for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16761 so expect to see some movement there, and Lorina please reach out if you need doc reviewers. [Tickets in the past 10 days] On the 4.0.2 front we've closed out 4 tickets. Not too much action on that front but that's probably because... For 4.1.0, we knocked out 16 issues including a slew of CEP-10 refactorings, changes, and cleanups. Make sure to rebase your patches in flight and check out Clock.java for your future timekeeping needs. [Tickets that need attention] Zero tickets again in the "Needs Committer" bucket. Needs reviewer: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2161 We have 4 tickets in 4.0.2 needing a reviewer of varying degrees of complexity. Any committers with a few spare cycles please lend a hand. For 4.1 we have 16 tickets that need reviewers. Several broad themes stand out (auth, btree work, certs) so there may be pairs people can peel off to review if you have the bandwidth. And that's a wrap for the last 10 days. A lot is going on and it seems like momentum *may* be shifting a bit towards 4.1; let's see how that holds over the next two weeks. As always, thanks everyone for everything you do on the project, and don't hesitate to reach out on #cassandra-dev on the-asf.slack.com if you have any questions on the dev front or just want to say hi. ~Josh
