Re: Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Nick Telford
I agree that wikis are great for contribution; what I meant was that they're rather poor at organising information for ease of discovery, especially by new users. I still like the idea of some more structured docs being managed by the community though. On 1 April 2011 02:16, Eric Evans wrote: >

Re: Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 18:57 +0100, Nick Telford wrote: > I don't think the Wiki is the right place for community maintained > user docs; it doesn't have the necessary structure. The wiki is great at what wikis are great at, lowering the barrier to contribution. There is a lot of good stuff (some

Re: Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Nick Telford
I couldn't agree more, the DataStax docs (try saying that 3 times fast) are definitely the most complete and user-friendly source for end-users, while the wiki contains a lot more detailed information on the architecture and internals. Ideally, I'd like to see the user docs be in a place that the

Re: Status of deploy to maven central patch

2011-03-31 Thread Stu Hood
I would be +1 on this. We need a good way to develop against snapshots. Thanks for your work here Stephen. Stu On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just an FYI. > > I have the required fixes for Maven ANT Tasks in place: > > http://jira.co

Cassandra documentation (and in this case the datastax anti-entropy docs)

2011-03-31 Thread Peter Schuller
In response to the apparent mass confusion about nodetool repair that became evidence in the thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg11755.html I started looking around to see what is actually claimed about repair. I found that the Datastax docs: http://www.datasta

Re: State Of: CQL - driver devs

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 13:56 +0200, Bjorn Borud wrote: > > (Hopefully )for the next version, we'll replace Thrift with a > > dedicated protocol, one that eliminates the Thrift dependency, and > > more importantly, implements streaming. This should be transparent > > to applications for the most

Re: State Of: CQL - driver devs

2011-03-31 Thread Bjorn Borud
Eric Evans writes: > (Hopefully )for the next version, we'll replace Thrift with a dedicated > protocol, one that eliminates the Thrift dependency, and more > importantly, implements streaming. This should be transparent to > applications for the most part though. pardon my ignorance, is there