Lazy consensus seems like a safe path here. https://community.apache.org/committers/lazyConsensus.html
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 4:24 PM Ekaterina Dimitrova <e.dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Thank you for responding to my email. > > Looking at the responses, I guess I should directly open tickets - one for > deprecating in 4.0.2 (just warning and documenting it) and one for the > removal/providing interface for trunk? > > Do we need more formal voting or anything else that I might be missing? > Seems there is a consensus? > > Thank you, > Ekaterina > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 12:44, Aleksei Zotov <azotc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Aleksei Zotov. >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:52 AM Marcus Eriksson <marc...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:30:01AM -0500, Ekaterina Dimitrova wrote: >>> > Hi everyone, >>> > >>> > With the work to add Java 17 support for Cassandra, a new question >>> around >>> > the future of UDF was raised. The scripted UDF was using Nashorn which >>> is >>> > no longer packaged with the JDK. There are options to add new >>> dependencies >>> > to Graal JS for example but it seems people are not sure that it is >>> worth >>> > it. Please check the discussion on CASSANDRA-16895. >>> > >>> > The following suggestion was made by Marcus and supported by other PMC >>> > members - "I think we should deprecate scripted UDFs now and drop them >>> from >>> > the next major, but possibly provide hooks for people to write their >>> own >>> > UDF "engines" and break out the current javascript implementation in >>> to its >>> > own repository (but not ship it with Cassandra)." >>> > >>> > As a result we decided to engage with our users and created a Twitter >>> > survey. Results below: >>> > >>> > *We would love to understand how you use ApacheCassandra UDFs and >>> UDAs.* >>> > >>> > *32 people responded as follows:* >>> > >>> > - *We do not use them - 75%* >>> > - *We only use Java UDFs - 22%* >>> > - *We only use JS UDFs - 0%* >>> > - *We use Java and JS UDFs - 3%* >>> > >>> > We also received feedback on LinkedIN on the topic - >>> > >>> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6886728406742970369?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6886728406742970369%2C6886793921020608512%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6886728406742970369%2C6887421509485248512%29 >>> > >>> > Thoughts? >>> > >>> > Best regards, >>> > Ekaterina >>> >>