I want to start by saying I don't disagree with you on this issue. But, I do want to highlight that feature creep is real, and hurting our impending release.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:33 PM Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think part of being a modern database is not relying on drivers/clients > to idiomatically rebuild the schema. > > Thanks for bringing it up, Jon - huge +1 on merging (some form) of this. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:27 AM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > I was looking through our open JIRAs and realized we hadn't merged in > > server side describe calls yet. The ticket died off a ways ago, and I > > pinged Chris about it yesterday. He's got a lot of his plate and won't be > > able to work on it anytime soon. I still think we should include this in > > 4.0. > > > > From a technical standpoint, It doesn't say much on the ticket after Robert > > tossed an alternative patch out there. I don't mind reviewing and merging > > either of them, it sounded like both are pretty close to done and I think > > from the perspective of updating drivers for 4.0 this will save quite a bit > > of time since driver maintainers won't have to add new CQL generation for > > the various new options that have recently appeared. > > > > Questions: > > > > * Does anyone have an objection to getting this into 4.0? The patches > > aren't too huge, I think they're low risk, and also fairly high reward. > > * I don't have an opinion (yet) on Robert's patch vs Chris's, with regard > > to which is preferable. > > * Since soon after Robert put up his PR he hasn't been around, at least as > > far as I've seen. How have we dealt with abandoned patches before? If > > we're going to add this in the patch will need some cleanup. Is it > > reasonable to continue someone else's work when they've disappeared? > > > > Jon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
