On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Peter Lin <wool...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I sent a request to add a link my .Net driver for cassandra to the wiki > over 5 weeks back and no response at all. >
TL;DR There is something wrong with Cassandra information sharing, but I am partly to blame. My experience has not been too dissimilar to Peter's. I've had raised JIRA tickets that haven't been answered and requests to the wiki that haven't been answered. But I do appreciate that everybody is busy and things do slip through the cracks sometimes, as they do with things I'm responsible for. That said, I have received help from community via this mailing list, for which I am grateful. For example, when I was trying to get an update to the Apache wiki, Brady from DataStax helped me out with the Planet Cassandra wiki. In defence of the people trying to manage Cassandra, some of the limitations are down to the structure of Apache projects. I don't want to start an issue tracker flame war, but I feel that a lot of oversight has gone missing in Apache's JIRA installation. Last week I raised a ticket that was (incorrectly) marked as a duplicate, due to an oversight in the affected version field. The reason for this is the unhelpful way the JIRA page was rendered - I can completely empathize with the person who closed it. Because of things like this, I always think four times over before raising a ticket in JIRA. This is also not the right approach either, and I am partly to blame. Just this week, a member of the community took the time to do the right thing when raising a issue and they also went to effort of supplying a patch for the issue I had chosen not to put into JIRA. So I think there is something wrong with the way the community is sharing its common knowledge, but I don't have a better suggestion. How are you going to get a bunch of disparate people together to write cohesive documentation that is in sync with the current release? Furthermore, As a maintainer of a CQL driver, I have little if any contact with any contact with any of the other driver maintainers. They must be out there, but I don't know of a forum for them. It might not be needed, but sometimes I feel like it should. So I'm just as guilty as everybody else of not creating this community.
