What specifically is driving you to use trunk rather than the stable, 0.6 branch?
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Matthew Conway <m...@backupify.com> wrote: > Not so much worried about temporary breakages, but more about design > decisions that are made to enhance cassandra at the cost of a data format > change. So long as the policy here is to preserve backwards compatibility > with the on disk storage format (possibly with an automatic conversion), even > that shouldn't be a problem. I'll go ahead and follow commits/dev, but given > my lack of experience with cassandra, I'm worried I might not be able to tell > an important change from not, so it would be helpful if I knew if any more > were planned for 0.7, or if an extra step was taken to announce these kinds > of changes in one of the lists. Thanks, > > Matt > > On Jun 11, 2010, at Fri Jun 11, 7:43 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> If you're comfortable following comm...@cassandra.apache.org, it >> should be pretty obvious which changes are going to break things >> temporarily or require a commitlog drain. Otherwise, we recommend >> sticking with the stable branch until a beta is released. >> >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Conway <m...@backupify.com> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'd like to start using trunk for something real, but am concerned about >>> stability of the data format. That is, will I be able to upgrade a running >>> system to a newer version of trunk and eventually to the 7.0 release, or >>> are there any changes planned to the format of the data stored on disk that >>> would prevent this. I'm ok with having to do a full shutdown to do >>> upgrades, or even some form of export/import (would prefer to avoid this), >>> but obviously would need to know when the format has changed so I can do >>> the right thing (announcements to mailing list?). What is the recommend >>> procedure for dealing with upgrades? Thanks, >>> >>> Matt >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Ellis >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support >> http://riptano.com > >
