Because you do not know if the issues stopping the release will require an API change -- so is the API stable?
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 3:02 PM Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > Perhaps we should consider a Milestone release. At least in some projects > this is a way to provide a test bed with known issues that will be > corrected before an RC. > > How does that differ from beta in our lifecycle? API stable but a test bed > to suss out issues like this. > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024, at 9:30 AM, Claude Warren, Jr via dev wrote: > > Perhaps we should consider a Milestone release. At least in some projects > this is a way to provide a test bed with known issues that will be > corrected before an RC. > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:50 PM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > > This came in after our vote, but we might also have a problem with > performing schema changes after a full restart. Appears to only be if the > entire cluster was shut down, according to the report. If it's true, this > might affect anyone trying to restore from a backup. This would also be a > blocker for me, if that's the case. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19735 > > Jon > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:49 PM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > > Thanks for confirming this, Blake. I agree that we should not knowingly > ship new versions with severe bugs that cause the DB to crash, regression > or not. > > -1 from me as well > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 1:39 AM Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com> > wrote: > > Looking at the ticket, I’d say Jon’s concern is legitimate. The segfaults > Jon is seeing are probably caused by paxos V2 when combined with off heap > memtables for the reason Benedict suggests in the JIRA. This problem will > continue to exist in 5.0. Unfortunately, it looks like the patch posted is > not enough to address the issue and will need to be a bit more involved to > properly fix the problem. > > While this is not a regression, I think Jon’s point about trie memtables > increasing usage of off heap memtables is a good one, and anyway we > shouldn’t be doing major releases with known process crashing bugs. > > So I’m voting -1 on this release and will work with Jon and Benedict to > get this fixed. > > Thanks, > > Blake > > > On Jun 26, 2024, at 6:47 AM, Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > > Blake or Benedict - can either of you speak to Jon's concerns around > CASSANDRA-19668? > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 12:18 AM, Jeff Jirsa wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Jun 25, 2024, at 5:04 AM, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Proposing the test build of Cassandra 5.0-rc1 for release. > > sha1: b43f0b2e9f4cb5105764ef9cf4ece404a740539a > Git: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/5.0-rc1-tentative > Maven Artifacts: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecassandra-1336/org/apache/cassandra/cassandra-all/5.0-rc1/ > > The Source and Build Artifacts, and the Debian and RPM packages and > repositories, are available here: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cassandra/5.0-rc1/ > > The vote will be open for 72 hours (longer if needed). Everyone who has > tested the build is invited to vote. Votes by PMC members are considered > binding. A vote passes if there are at least three binding +1s and no -1's. > > [1]: CHANGES.txt: > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0-rc1-tentative/CHANGES.txt > [2]: NEWS.txt: > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5.0-rc1-tentative/NEWS.txt > > >