I’m cool with this. We may have to think about numbering as I think TCM will break some backwards compatibility and we might technically expect the follow-up release to be 6.0
Maybe it’s not so bad to have such rapid releases either way. > On 23 Oct 2023, at 12:52, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > The TCM work (CEP-21) is in its review stage but being well past our cut-off > date¹ for merging, and now jeopardising 5.0 GA efforts, I would like to > propose the following. > > We merge TCM and Accord only to trunk. Then branch cassandra-5.1 and cut an > immediate 5.1-alpha1 release. > > I see this as a win-win scenario for us, considering our current situation. > (Though it is unfortunate that Accord is included in this scenario because we > agreed it to be based upon TCM.) > > This will mean… > - We get to focus on getting 5.0 to beta and GA, which already has a ton of > features users want. > - We get an alpha release with TCM and Accord into users hands quickly for > broader testing and feedback. > - We isolate GA efforts on TCM and Accord – giving oss and downstream > engineers time and patience reviewing and testing. TCM will be the biggest > patch ever to land in C*. > - Give users a choice for a more incremental upgrade approach, given just > how many new features we're putting on them in one year. > - 5.1 w/ TCM and Accord will maintain its upgrade compatibility with all 4.x > versions, just as if it had landed in 5.0. > > > The risks/costs this introduces are > - If we cannot stabilise TCM and/or Accord on the cassandra-5.1 branch, and > at some point decide to undo this work, while we can throw away the > cassandra-5.1 branch we would need to do a bit of work reverting the changes > in trunk. This is a _very_ edge case, as confidence levels on the design and > implementation of both are already tested and high. > - We will have to maintain an additional branch. I propose that we treat > the 5.1 branch in the same maintenance window as 5.0 (like we have with 3.0 > and 3.11). This also adds the merge path overhead. > - Reviewing of TCM and Accord will continue to happen post-merge. This is > not our normal practice, but this work will have already received its two +1s > from committers, and such ongoing review effort is akin to GA stabilisation > work on release branches. > > > I see no other ok solution in front of us that gets us at least both the 5.0 > beta and TCM+Accord alpha releases this year. Keeping in mind users demand > to start experimenting with these features, and our Cassandra Summit in > December. > > > 1) https://lists.apache.org/thread/9c5cnn57c7oqw8wzo3zs0dkrm4f17lm3 > >
