Congratulations Jay!
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Jeff Jirsa wrote:
> I'm late. Mea culpa. I blame February for only having 28 days.
>
> The following contributors had their first ever commit into the project
> (since the last time I made this list, which was late 2017)!
>
> Johannes Grassler
> Michael Burman
> Nicolas GUYOMAR
> Alex Ott
> Samuel Roberts
> Dinesh Joshi
> Amichai Rothman
> Vince White
> Sumanth Pasupuleti
> Samuel Fink
> Alexander Dejanovski
> Dimitar Dimitrov
> Kevin Wern
> Yuji Ito
>
> Jay Zhuang was recently added as a committer. Congrats Jay!
>
> There are some notably active topics to which I'd like to draw your
> attention, in case you haven't been reading email or following JIRA:
>
> 1) There's been a lot of talk about docs. There are a lot of new JIRAs for
> filling in the doc sections. Some of these could use review and commit (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14128?
> jql=project%20%3D%20CASSANDRA%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%
> 22Documentation%20and%20Website%22%20and%20status%
> 20%3D%20%22Patch%20Available%22
> ) , some of them still need content (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%
> 3D%20CASSANDRA%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Documentation%20and%
> 20Website%22%20and%20status%20%3D%20Open
> ). A friendly reminder for anyone writing docs: respect other peoples'
> copyrights. This hasn't been a problem (as far as I can tell), but while
> other people/companies have written docs that are probably relevant, please
> don't go copying them verbatim. Docs should be some of the lowest bar to
> entry for new contributors - there's a nice howto here if you don't know
> how to contribute docss
> http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/development/documentation.html )
>
> 2) There's a lot of activity around audit logging (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12151 ) . There's a few
> other related tickets (Stefan's internal auditing events
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13668 , and the
> full-query-log patch at
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13983 ), but there's also
> a
> few different goals (as Joseph Lynch pointed out, there's at least 4 -
> security, compliance / SOX / PCI, replayability, debugging). If you're in
> the class of user that cares about these features (any of the 4), you
> should probably consider visiting that thread and reading the discussion.
>
> 3) Lerh Chuan Low has done a LOT of work on
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8460 (tiered storage). If
> you have any sort of desire to mix spinning+SSD disks in a single server,
> you may want to weigh in on the design.
>
> 4) There was an interesting conversation about performance of latency
> metrics. Started here:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e7067b3a8048ee62d4932064220333
> 9dc0f466fec6b3fdf6db575ad6@%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E
>
>
> 5) There are two or three different JIRAs/fixes floating around for the 2
> stupid MV unit tests that keep timing out. At least two of them were opened
> by committers, and I think both were reviewed by committers - please settle
> on one and commit it.
>
> Finally: If you're interested in learning more about cassandra from other
> users, the mailing list and JIRA have both been pretty busy this month, and
> that's nice. There are also Cassandra meetup groups all over the world - if
> you haven't ever attended one, I encourage you to find one (I'm not going
> to link to any, because I don't want it to look like there are any
> "official" groups, but search your favorite sites, you'll likely find one
> near you).
>
> I'm Jeff Jirsa, and this was the February 2018 Cassandra Dev Wrapup.
>
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Dikang
