Unfortunately, the perception that I have as a business consumer and night-time hack, is that more importance and effort is placed on ensuring information is up to date and correct on the http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/index website and less on keeping the wiki up to date or relevant... which forces people to be introduced to a for-profit company to get relevant information ... which just so happens to employ a substantial amount of Apache Cassandra contributors ... not that there's anything wrong with that, right?
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Boxenhorn <da...@citypath.com> wrote: > This is part of a much bigger problem, one which has many parts, among them: > > 1. Cassandra is complex. Getting a gestalt understanding of it makes me > think I understand how Alzheimer's patients must feel. > 2. There is no official documentation. Perhaps everything is out there > somewhere, who knows? > 3. Cassandra is a moving target. Books are out of date before they hit the > press. > 4. Most of the important knowledge about Cassandra exists in a kind of oral > history, that is hard to keep up with, and even harder to understand once > it's long past. > > I think it is clear that we need a better one-stop-shop for good > documentation. What hasn't been talked about much - but I think it's just as > important - is a good one-stop-shop for Cassandra's oral history. > > (You might think this list is the place, but it's too noisy to be useful, > except at the very tip of the cowcatcher. Cassandra needs a canonized > version of its oral history.)
