Awesome - was missing the link to CASSANDRA-17930. That's a good home to link 
these efforts to. Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022, at 1:21 PM, Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> I do have a ticket for the CircleCI addition: 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17950. It's a subtask of 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17930, which I'm planning on 
> doing more work on once I get confirmation that I'm not doing something wrong 
> with CircleCI :)
> 
> I put the JIRA ID in the commit message but I guess I forgot to mention it in 
> the request for reviewer :( 
> 
> For the doc PR Mick just said to submit the PR first since it's a small 
> change, but I'm happy to open a JIRA ticket for it if that's a more 
> appropriate path.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Derek
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 11:17 AM Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote:
>> __
>> Late Post-ApacheCon update ftw! I'll probably give it 2.5 weeks before the 
>> next update so we have more time for things to settle and evolve as we run 
>> up to 4.1 rc and ga.
>> 
>> First off - for all of you who couldn't make it to ApacheCon: you were 
>> missed. New Orleans was great (and the food there undoubtedly takes time off 
>> one's lifespan...). For those of you who could make it - it was great to see 
>> new faces and meet new folks in person while also seeing some old-timers on 
>> the project as well! It's incredibly energizing to have newcomers to the 
>> project bring their energy and fresh perspectives and experiences to the 
>> group.
>> 
>> During the middle of the conference the 4.1-beta vote passed - the artifacts 
>> are available as mentioned in Mick's previous email here: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/nd342c3k1s3swm77gn3j0td178y7fwns.
>> 
>> Videos of the talks from the NA ApacheCon 2022 Cassandra Track are available 
>> courtesy of Jeremy Hanna's upload here: 
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tOhC7G2Ezp3W-SSs2J4CiLtlZ7hutuRP. I 
>> hear slides should be coming out at some point but haven't heard details on 
>> that yet.
>> 
>> On the topic of conferences, the Cassandra Summit returns in 2023 - see the 
>> blog post on the Cassandra blog here: 
>> https://cassandra.apache.org/_/blog/Cassandra-Summit-Returns-in-2023.html. 
>> It will be held in San Jose California, March 13-14 2023 and will be hosted 
>> by the Linux Foundation. Call for Proposals aren't quite open yet but you 
>> can see a guide on starting to get information together here: 
>> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/program/cfp/. Also, the 
>> conference is looking for sponsors so if your employer would be interested 
>> in sponsoring or if *you* would like to be a sponsor of this event, please 
>> reach out to sponsorsh...@linuxfoundation.org.
>> 
>> Circling back to 4.1 as is tradition on these emails now, we need to first 
>> cover a change that's in flight: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/26gw66ohl8zbo4ozj3yvhk19wkzl0qw0. The TL;DR: 
>> we just finished voting on allowing using ASF Jenkins OR circleci as release 
>> gating criteria for official Cassandra releases. This is largely a stopgap 
>> as we continue to work to improve the stability of the ASF CI infrastructure.
>> 
>> As a snapshot of where we are today: 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484. We have 
>> 6 issues blocking RC, only 1 of which is unassigned (CASSANDRA-17773 - 
>> Incorrect cassandra.logdir on Debian systems) which looks like more of an 
>> administrative oversight as Claude appears to be active on it. We do have 
>> one ticket that needs committer attention (CASSANDRA-17873 - Opcodes.ASM7 
>> should be used in UDFByteCodeVerifier to support JDK11) that Ekaterina's 
>> working on. If any committers have some spare cycles your attention here 
>> would be greatly appreciated!
>> 
>> 
>> [New Contributors Getting Started]
>> Documentation contributions, website contributions, anything in the 
>> unassigned list on 4.0.x or 4.x here that you feel up to tackling: 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2160.
>>  The world is your oyster. :)
>> 
>> We have 35 total "Starter Tickets" (i.e. a mentor has determined that the 
>> ticket is _probably_ a bit more bite-sized and good for getting to know the 
>> project) across our various releases that are unassigned right now: 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2160&quickFilter=2162
>> 
>> Here's reference explaining the various types of contribution: 
>> https://cassandra.apache.org/_/community.html#how-to-contribute
>> An overview of the C* architecture: 
>> https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/architecture/overview.html
>> The getting started contributing guide: 
>> https://cassandra.apache.org/_/development/index.html
>> We hang out in #cassandra-dev on https://the-asf.slack.com and there's a 
>> @cassandra_mentors alias you can use to reach a bunch of us that have 
>> volunteered to help newcomers get situated. If you need an invite to the 
>> slack channel feel free to reply to just me on this email and I'll get you 
>> set up.
>> 
>> 
>> [Dev list Digest]
>> https://lists.apache.org/list?dev@cassandra.apache.org:lte=14d:
>> 
>> Pretty busy couple of weeks. There's an ongoing discussion about password 
>> validation and generation and CEP-24 that is covering some really solid 
>> ground on just how far is appropriate to go with the feature, what we'd like 
>> as operators, what we think is industry standard in our field, etc. You can 
>> chime in on the thread: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/454tmo2r9238rj69j7h3xv43crygv31m
>> 
>> We have a new episode of the Apache Cassandra Corner on staging that'll go 
>> live Friday night - if you'd like, feel free to preview it and provide Aaron 
>> with your feedback: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/7prkk4dndfvf8oxsb17o74z61wknrn45
>> 
>> Derek Chen-Becker (ApacheCon presenter extraordinaire!) is looking for 
>> reviewers on a circleci config and doc fix - we have PR's for that linked in 
>> his email: https://lists.apache.org/thread/lt0tplx19k6xvbl9f0pg0q5jql0r4j8t. 
>> @Derek - do we have JIRA's for this yet? That'd get them visible in our 
>> standard workflows so I could highlight them from the status emails here.
>> 
>> We drove to consensus on the inclusion of the Agrona library with the points 
>> being raised about the dangers of overlapping functionality and documenting 
>> the "preferred and idiomatic Way To Do Things" in a code-base where you have 
>> multiple first-class options: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/zk9hjk1rklcof1pmw555no032pmr3001. I don't 
>> think anyone took away the ToDo item of actually revising our Code Style 
>> guidelines (https://cassandra.apache.org/_/development/code_style.html) 
>> about library usage - maybe that'd be something good for someone to do when 
>> they add a library @Branimir? :)
>> 
>> James reached out about joining the slack, which is what led me to realize I 
>> should include that little detail above in this status email: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/53rmbdz8f089b00mwfwsnv5kmbdsjjhd
>> 
>> The thread about whether we should move from 4.2 to 5.0 had a straggler from 
>> Patrick a couple weeks ago; I'm still firmly in the camp of "we should more 
>> rigorously document our JDK commitments and signpost upcoming JDK support 
>> addition and removal w/major versions", but words are cheap and Ekaterina's 
>> doing the hard work on the JDK17 support for now so I'll just shut up on 
>> that topic. :)
>> 
>> Berenguer's looking for feedback re: 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14227, extending the maximum 
>> expiration date. Benedict provided some feedback on the mailing list 
>> regarding concerns w/memory pressure (which is being finicky because of mail 
>> threading w/an unrelated reply) -> thread starting w/the reply and proposal 
>> for delta encoding here: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/j36ps2tsjjchfm1msl3v8xghox1djgyt. If you 
>> have a perspective on this please feel free to chime in.
>> 
>> And last but certainly not least Brad keeps fighting the good fight on 
>> modernizing and cleaning up our python: 
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread/14wlyv2skmkn6jlg9ojh134c3p20ypg8! No harm in 
>> being careful and hitting up the dev list about removing and replacing 
>> libraries.
>> 
>> 
>> [ASF CI Trends]
>> https://butler.cassandra.apache.org/#/
>> 
>> Here's our trends on our branches for the last two weeks:
>> 
>> 3.0: 10 -> 13
>> 3.11: 17 -> 22
>> 4.0: 5 -> 6
>> 4.1: 11 -> 14
>> trunk: 11 -> 7
>> 
>> The spike in 4.1 appears to be local socket binding errors: 
>> https://ci-cassandra.apache.org/job/Cassandra-4.1/181/testReport/dtest-offheap.replication_test/TestSnitchConfigurationUpdate/test_rf_collapse_property_file_snitch/,
>>  ccmlib.common.UnavailableSocketError: Inet address 127.0.0.2:7000 is not 
>> available: [Errno 98] Address already in use; a cluster may already be 
>> running or you may need to add the loopback alias
>> 
>> This is something we saw intermittently in the past but anecdotally appears 
>> to be becoming more prevalent. Not sure if we have a JIRA for it yet
>> 
>> 
>> [CircleCI Status]
>> Andres de la Peña is working on CASSANDRA-17938 (allow multiple tests to be 
>> multiplexed in one run) and CASSANDRA-17939 (automatically detect and repeat 
>> new or modified JUnit tests), Derek's working on getting our test suite 
>> coverage into parity on CASSANDRA-17950 (enable dtest-offheap in circle-ci). 
>> We'll need to do another audit of which tests are running in ASF CI and not 
>> in Circle to ensure that the coverage there matches; several conversations 
>> have gone on about this in slack, email threads, and JIRA, so if I've missed 
>> something here please ping the thread. Probably worth creating an epic to 
>> validate circle as a CI env that we can use to validate a release; I'll get 
>> on that.
>> 
>> 
>> [Release progress]
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2175
>> 
>> 4.1 rc / ga:
>> - Fixed - Zero length files in the audit folder would prevent a node startup 
>> (CASSANDRA-17933)
>> - Fix StorageService.getNativeaddress not handling IPv6 addresses correctly 
>> in all cases (CASSANDRA-17945)
>> - Test fix on dtest.repair_tests (CASSANDRA-17005)
>> - Fix on RateLimitingTest when running pre-V5 (CASSANDRA-17927)
>> - Fixed inability to autocomplate "WITH" when creating materialized views 
>> (CASSANDRA-17879)
>> 
>> 4.0.x:
>> - Fix for LongBufferPoolTest flakiness (CASSANDRA-16681)
>> 
>> 4.X / Next: 9 issues
>> - Fixed IllegalArgumentException in Gossiper due to concurrent mutations 
>> (CASSANDRA-17908)
>> - Inclide the estimated active compaction remaining write sizes when 
>> starting new compactions (CASSANDRA-17931)
>> - Add support for mixed mode support for internode auth during TLS upgrades 
>> (CASSANDRA-17923)
>> - Allow 0 to be used in collection_size guardrails to prohibit collections 
>> (CASSANDRA-17551)
>> - Re-upgrade Mockito to 4.7.0 after CASSANDRA-17750 (CASSANDRA-17946)
>> 
>> We're super close to 4.1 rc, and we have a _ton_ of exciting _post_ 4.1 
>> stuff coming from all angles in the community; really excited to see this 
>> coming together. Thanks everyone!
>> 
>> ~Josh
> 
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