You are right, the end is in sight for 1072 to be committed to trunk. It won't be documented for end-users or committed to 0.7 branch until we fix the drawbacks elaborated on the ticket, because that fixing won't be backwards-compatible. And at that point we'll probably be close to the next major release so it may not make sense to backport at all.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hawthorne <dha...@3crowd.com> wrote: > Can we get an update? After reading through the comments on 1072, it looks > like this is getting close to finished, but it's hard for someone not > knee-deep in the project to tell. I'm primarily interested in the timeline > you foresee for getting the increment support into trunk for 0.7, and some > documentation around how counters will be supported from the user's > perspective - chiefly what a Column and SuperColumn will look like with > counters and what the thrift API will be. Some documentation about the > remaining issues and concerns we should be aware of when using counters would > be good, too, since it looks like there were some in the comments. Again, as > someone not knee-deep in the project, it's hard to tell how severe they are > or how or when they would apply in general use. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
