Humm — sorry guys — I never got Chris or Jonathan’s responses for some reason.
That being said, sounds like a good compromise Sylvain. Fingers crossed this turns into a good experiment! Thanks best, kjellman > On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> What if we tried a quicker release cycle, BUT we would guarantee that >> you could do a rolling upgrade until we bump the supermajor version? >> So 2.0 could upgrade to 3.0 without having to go through 2.1. (But to >> go to 3.1 or 4.0 you would have to go through 3.0.) >> > > I was thinking of something along those lines so I'm in favor of giving > that a try. > > More precisely, I was thinking we could lower the release cycle to 4 month > (less > feels hard to achieve) but make a "supermajor" only every 2 releases (or > less > often, though "guarantee that you could do a rolling upgrade" imply that we > rigorously > test that and I think aiming for 2 release in a row initially is a good > start). > > It's worth acknowledging that this will probably involve a tad more merging > work > but it feels that increase might be reasonable. > > -- > Sylvain > > >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Chris Burroughs >> <chris.burrou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 06/17/2014 01:16 PM, Michael Kjellman wrote: >>>> >>>> That being said I don’t think i’m alone by identifying the problem. >>> >>> >>> FWIW I'm not doing anything wildly unusual and I've been on a fork for as >>> long as I've been on 1.2 (and various times before). Almost everyone >> being >>> on 1.2 with 3 other equally weighted active branches seems like an >> obvious >>> not-great situation for running cassandra or developing. >>> >>> I like the idea of shortening the release cycle and LTS style releases >> and >>> they feel like the most direct approach. I'm a little wary of more >> branches >>> since that could backfire and make the problem worse. >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Ellis >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com >> @spyced >>
