Technically March, but Abe Ratnofsky was also added as a committer. Looks like the announcement for that was missed
On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 10:45 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote: > Did you know I sometimes fail at email filtering? > > 4 new committers! FOUR. Welcome to Bernardo Botella Corbi as well! > > That was 3 days ago too. /sigh > > Congrats everyone! > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 1:39 PM, Josh McKenzie wrote: >> What happened last month? *New PMC members and committers, that's what.* >> >> We welcomed *three* new people to the PMC in Feb: Jeremiah Jordan, Caleb >> Rackliffe, and Ekaterina Dimitrova. We're the better for all three of them >> being here with us; thank you all for your hard work over the years and >> dedication to making this project a better place to collaborate. >> >> We added 3 new committers as well! Busy month. Maxwell Guo, Dmitry >> Konstantinov, and Aaron Ploetz. It's really heartening to see this much >> movement with us deepening our bench of both long-time contributors and new >> entrants to the project. >> >> Congratulations again to all three of you new PMC members and you three new >> committers! >> >> *[Releases]* >> The 4.1 and 5.0 releases that were in limbo last we emailed were released, >> along with the Java Driver 4.19.0 release, and the inaugural Sidecar 0.1.0 >> release! Congratulations to everyone working hard on the sidecar to start >> gaining momentum and building inertia on the project. >> >> *[Email Activity]* >> - We had 38(!) topics on dev@, so I'll select a handful that I think >> everyone should be aware of: >> - CEP-15 Update: Benedict and the other contributors working on Accord >> are looking for a community consensus on when to merge and what prereqs >> might be reasonable. >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/j9qmj9rn1p0tlntc9k90bygh43y8sb57 >> - Joel Shepherd is exploring run-time collisions of dependencies with an >> ask around whether we've considered factoring interfaces out of the core DB >> into a shared library: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/7x9wsn265mq5jd5q236y0nkjsw6ycbct >> - Radim Vansa is looking for feedback on a patch for Spring Boot to make >> things work with the OpenJDK CRaC project: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/9sms1sk8fd739mp7699wrbj0vnd0kzd1. Seems the >> Spring folks felt their community wasn't the right place for the work so >> Radim is wondering if ours is. >> - Dmitry's opened up the discussion about dropping Dropwizard/Codahale >> metrics in the Cassandra Server; some good discussion there: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/xwxqhmzbtxo4job1r0t8j0b9838t7jvd >> - Cassandra Forward 2025 happens on March 11; see Patric's announcement >> and reminder here: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/thkksv42wkbksfhv986mdwzo1r4cxdo9 >> - And last but definitely not least, David wins an award for the best >> email subject line in recent memory with "Meaningless emptiness and >> filtering": https://lists.apache.org/thread/h3mlccz4g6o9tfz9bgb9p4f395lpmswp >> The user list has a couple topics folks have engaged with already around >> reattaching EBS replicas async and doing a PoC of Cassandra on AWS EC2 >> Graviton's. Check those out if you're interested. >> >> *[JIRA Activity]* >> Closed: 106 issues closed in JIRA since Feb 3: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20and%20resolution%20!%3D%20unresolved%20and%20resolved%20%3E%3D%202025-02-03. >> Again: that's a lot. Color me impressed. >> >> Created: 103 new issues: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20and%20created%20%3E%3D%202025-02-03. >> Of those, 81 are still unresolved. >> >> *[New Contributors]* >> Hello and welcome! We've flagged some tickets as good starter tickets and >> you can find them in our JIRA kanban board here: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2162&quickFilter=2160. >> All of these are unassigned so feel free to browse and find what interests >> you. >> >> Join us on the ASF slack: https://the-asf.slack.com, in #cassandra-dev for >> dev discussion and #cassandra for user discussion. If you need an invite to >> the slack server, let me know and I'll get you setup. >> >> *[Needs Committer]* >> We have 9 tickets that qualify for needing a committer, up from 8 last >> month: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2170. >> For those that don't know, we require 2 +1 from committers on the project >> before merge. >> >> *[Needs Reviewer]* >> As a reminder here's our JQL: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12353799#. We're up from 97 to >> 108 tickets that are Patch Available and need a reviewer. I'll actually set >> a reminder to myself to follow up with pinging people on these old tickets >> this time. :) >> >> *[CI]* >> Butler: https://butler.cassandra.apache.org/#/ >> Nothing untoward seems to be happening here.; holding steady. >> >> And there we have it folks. Lots of talking, lots of JIRAs, lots of code. >> Good month for the project. >> >> As always - thanks everyone for your time and commitment to the project! >> >> ~Josh >
