I love this idea, and it looks like Joel is on team DX! On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 2:07 PM Dinesh Joshi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems useful and reasonable! We should have this. > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:31 AM Joel Shepherd <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all - I wonder if there would be community support for including a >> "user experience" section in CEPs going forward (no rules against >> retro-fitting them either). >> >> The purpose of the section would be to describe how an operator would be >> expected to enable, configure, upgrade (if necessary) and operate the >> feature proposed in the CEP. >> >> Paulo wrote an "Operational Guide" section in CEP-62, which I found >> helpful in getting a clear picture about what my responsibilities would >> be, as an operator, if I wanted to use Sidecar to manage my node config. >> As I'm working through the implementation of CEP-50, I'm also realizing >> that operators are going to need to understand how to configure >> negotiation and know about things that will end up either being sharp >> edges or fundamental changes in behavior. (Did you know that >> unauthenticated, anonymous users are by default super-users? Holy >> Privilege Escalation, Batman!) >> >> I plan to add an "Operational Guide" section to CEP-50 and probably >> revise it as I better understand the implications of some of the changes >> required. I think in general doing so as early as possible will get us >> to think early about how easy or hard it will be for Cassandra users to >> adopt new functionality, and hopefully push the project as a whole >> towards making it as easy as possible. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- Joel. >> >>
