Re: Moderation

2016-11-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
their community leaders becoming “ASF members”, and that Cassandra MVPs are great – but secondary – to the responsibilities of the PMC to move towards ensuring its community understands the Apache Way.” Thanks. Cheers, Chris On 11/6/16, 6:53 AM, "Chris Mattmann" wrote: For

Re: Moderation

2016-11-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
regard. > > All I ask if for some common professionalism and courtesy, nothing more. > > > > > On 11/4/16, 4:46 PM, "Chris Mattmann" > wrote: > > Hi Russ, > > Sorry tha

Re: DataStax role in Cassandra and the ASF

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
Thank you for sending this. I am not going to reply in depth now, but will do so to Kelly and others over the weekend, but this is *precisely* the reason that I have been so emphatic about trying to get the PMC to see the road they have already gone done and the ship that has already set sail.

Re: Moderation

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
gt;> Yes, I would like to be added, and here sis the ticket I filed: > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12858. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -Jason > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:10 AM,

Re: Moderation

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
p lead by example and reply to Kelly's questions in her email? > Thanks. > > I don't enjoy watching a community I care about continue to explode in front > of my eyes ☹️ > > best, > kjellman > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 4, 2016, at 10:10

Re: Moderation

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
orry, it's a chore to begin with and I've been traveling this week. > > > > Gary. > > > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Chris Mattmann > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > > > Kelly Sommers sent a message to dev@cassandra and I'm trying to figure > > > out if it's in moderation. > > > > > > Can the moderators speak up? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Chris > > > > > > > > >

Re: Moderation

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
project? Or is Twitter the official list now? Go ahead, I'll wait. > On 4 November 2016 at 16:44, Chris Mattmann wrote: > > > So seriously, we're going to send now 4 emails talking about what a user > > of Apache Cassandra and possible community member could have done ri

Re: Moderation

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
t; when that same conversation could be had on list. If you are ok with that > > continuing to happen then great but I am not. Can someone please moderate > > the message through? > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Nov 4, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Mark Tho

Moderation

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
Hi Folks, Kelly Sommers sent a message to dev@cassandra and I'm trying to figure out if it's in moderation. Can the moderators speak up? Cheers, Chris

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
and other things. I think the approach proposed by Jonathan is a nice way to keep dev list followers informed but keeping ticket details focused. > On Aug 15, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Chris Mattmann wrote: > > How is it harder to point someone to mail? >

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
How is it harder to point someone to mail? Have you seen lists.apache.org? Specifically: https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@cassandra.apache.org On 8/15/16, 10:08 AM, "Jeremiah D Jordan" wrote: I like keeping things in JIRA because then everything is in one place, and it is easy to

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
the point of Ellis’s proposal, and this discussion, if there was never a choice in the matter in the first place? On 8/15/16, 2:03 PM, "Chris Mattmann" wrote: I’m sorry but you are massively confused if you believe that the ASF mailing lists aren’t

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
r broad discussion or bringing specific issues to the attention of the broader community. It should never be the source of truth. best, kjellman Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Chris Mattmann mailto:mattm...@apache.org>> wrote: Realize it

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
> So, I'm +1 to just post JIRA link to dev list. > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Chris Mattmann > wrote: > > This is a good outward flow of info to the dev list. However, there > needs to be > > inward flow too – having the

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
pening on the dev list at once seems much “higher noise” to me. -Jeremiah > On Aug 15, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Chris Mattmann wrote: > > Discussion belongs on the dev list. Putting discussion in JIRA, is fine, but realize, > there is a

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
t we could, and probably should. -- AY On 15 August 2016 at 18:22:36, Chris Mattmann (mattm...@apache.org) wrote: Discussion belongs on the dev list. Putting discussion in JIRA, is fine, but realize, there is a lot of noise in that signal and people may or

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
> On Aug 15, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Chris Mattmann wrote: > > Discussion belongs on the dev list. Putting discussion in JIRA, is fine, but realize, > there is a lot of noise in that signal and people may or may not be watching > the JIRA list. In fact, I don’t see JIR

Re: A proposal to move away from Jira-centric development

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Mattmann
Discussion belongs on the dev list. Putting discussion in JIRA, is fine, but realize, there is a lot of noise in that signal and people may or may not be watching the JIRA list. In fact, I don’t see JIRA sent to the dev list at all so you are basically forking the conversation to a high noise lis

Special Report: August 2016

2016-08-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
Carman and others bring up about marketing material from DataStax 4. PMC composition and overall approach to PMC and committers Thank you. Cheers, Chris Mattmann

Re: 20% off Cassandra training

2016-08-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
Yeah this is something that hopefully folks at DataStax can work to update in its marketing material.. On 8/6/16, 2:54 PM, "James Carman" wrote: >I don't see any reference to the fact that it's "Apache Cassandra" here... > >-- Forwarded message - >From: Cassandra Summit 2016

Re: MSc Project - compaction strategy

2016-07-18 Thread Chris Mattmann
Dev discussion about the project should ideally be on the dev list. Further, all *decisions* must be on the dev list for the project. JIRA has the negative impact that it is lost in many people’s email filters and hard to parse the signal from the noise. I would consider some well formed emails t

Re: NewBie Question ~ Book for Cassandra

2016-06-12 Thread Chris Mattmann
writing docs, even if it >> becomes a PMC type rule for committers to commit Docs for new features like >> they should be committing unit tests. At least it improves what is shipped >> with the Apache project in question. >> >> Tom >> >> On Sat, Jun 11

Re: NewBie Question ~ Book for Cassandra

2016-06-11 Thread Chris Mattmann
e of documentation on >> Cassandra, and while it exists externally, the PMC should be >> be promoting (and hopefully ensuring) that the source of documentation >> for Apache Cassandra is here at the ASF. >> >> I’m happy to be corrected that that is the case, and/or

Re: Java Driver 3.0 for Apache Cassandra - Documentation Outdated?

2016-06-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
opers who most likely won't document or do a poor >job at documentation). > >Having some documentation is much better for the community than the >alternative that "the code is the documentation". > >Nothing is free. > >On Jun 6, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Chris Mattman

Re: Java Driver 3.0 for Apache Cassandra - Documentation Outdated?

2016-06-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
s hosted >at DataStax? > >Cheers, >Chris > >++++++ >Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >Chief Architect >Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) >NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 >Em

Re: Cassandra Java Driver and DataStax

2016-06-06 Thread Chris Mattmann
y and health issues of the project, and also some >> ideas about potential strategies for mitigation. >> >> I appreciate the open and honest conversation thus far. Let’s >> keep it up. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> ++

Re: Cassandra Java Driver and DataStax

2016-06-04 Thread Chris Mattmann
Thanks Jonathan. I’m starting to get a clearer idea of what’s going on here. Do you think it was a walled garden in terms of making reviews for incoming driver patches when you did have them in the tree? What you are talking about in the first paragraph is precisely the reason that your community

Cassandra Java Driver and DataStax

2016-06-03 Thread Chris Mattmann
Hi All, I’m investigating something a few ASF members contacted me about and pointed out, so I’m hoping you can help guide me here as a community. I have heard that a company, DataStax, whose marketing material mentions it as the only Cassandra vendor, “controls” the Java Driver for Apache Cassa