forgot to mention that 8457 changes the internode messaging protocol, so needs to fall on a major version boundary.
If 8457 does go forward, and CASSANDRA-8911 (mutation-based repair) does *not* happen, we'll need something like CASSANDRA-12229 (to support streaming under the non-blocking/netty model due to the changes introduced in 8457, which are documented in ticket) On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Aleksey Yeschenko <alek...@apache.org> wrote: > I’d strike CASSANDRA-10383 off the list - there is no way it’s a blocker > for anything. > > As for 9424, unless I die unexpectedly *and* nobody else picks up the > work, it should be fine for Nov. > > Don’t see anything missing from the list. > > -- > AY > > On 20 July 2016 at 15:59:34, Jason Brown (jasedbr...@gmail.com) wrote: > > CASSANDRA-8457 - nio MessagingService. Patch is up and awaiting review > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The plan of record has been to ship 4.0 in November, 12 months after 3.0. > > But, there are a number of features that are going to cause backwards > > incompatibility and if they miss 4.0 will need to wait for 5.0. Are any > of > > these worth delaying 4.0 for? > > > > (Currently the plan is to have all of these ready for November, but let's > > get our backup plan figured out now, just in case. That way we don't have > > to make the decision at the last minute when everything feels like an > > emergency.) > > > > Some candidates that might be worth delaying the release for: > > > > - "Birch" trees for the primary key index > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9754>. Changes the > > format of data on disk so automatically in the "dot zero" category. > > - Decouple messaging protocol versioning > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12042>. This would > > allow us to change the intra-node protocol on a per-message basis, which > > gives us more flexibility with compatibility. Currently any change > > drops > > us into the "no schema changes until everyone is upgraded" world which > > effectively rules out making any improvements across tick-tock releases. > > - Allow dropping COMPACT STORAGE flag > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10857>. This is what > > makes it possible to remove the deprecated Thrift support. > > - Schema rearchitecture > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9424>. Can we live > > without safe and programatic CREATE and ALTER for another year? > > > > -- > > Jonathan Ellis > > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > > @spyced > > >
