+1 On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
> +1 > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:04 AM Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> > wrote: > > > +1 now > > > > On 12/28/2015 09:26 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > > Thrift has been officially frozen for almost two years and unofficially > > for > > > longer. [1] Meanwhile, maintaining Thrift support through changes like > > > 8099 has been a substantial investment. > > > > > > I propose deprecating Thrift now and removing support in 4.0, i.e. Nov > > 2016 > > > if tick-tock goes as planned. > > > > > > I note that only 7% of our survey respondents [2] are using > Thrift-only, > > > and and those users are often on old releases (1.1 and 1.2), i.e. > > unlikely > > > to upgrade to 4.x anyway. > > > > > > Another 20% of users are using a mix of Thrift and CQL. Some have been > > > unable to completely migrate because CQL doesn’t quite provide every > > > feature from Thrift. The last such outstanding issue is mixing static > > and > > > dynamic Thrift “columns” in a single table. We have an issue open to > > > address this [3]. > > > > > > I think it is reasonable to either deprecate Thrift immediately in 3.2 > or > > > to wait until 10857 is committed in 3.4. > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-dev/201403.mbox/%3ccaldd-zim6knmr7f_zcpvpqk0b2g919tttathiuofnvlztaw...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > > > [2] > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FegCArZgj2DNAjNkcXi1n2Y1Kfvf6cdZedkMPYQdvC0/edit#gid=0 > > > > > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857 > > > > > > > > -- Thanks, Ryan Svihla
