I think our plan was to cut an alpha with what's on the bus. June/July will pick up the next items on the bus. I'm +1 on now.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 2:04 AM Štefan Miklošovič <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we want to release 6.0-alpha2 _now_ or the next quarter, that would > be ... June / July, not sure what you prefer. I don't mind either way. > > In Mick's first mail there is: "This would kick off the alpha release > lifecycle definition/expectations." > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 7:28 PM Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Only agreement ! > > > > CASSANDRA-21319 for the branching, which is in progress. > > I need to leave the 6.0-alpha2 cut to others. > > > > > > > > > On 9 Apr 2026, at 23:37, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > We said* we would, are we ready to branch cassandra-6.0 and cut > 6.0-alpha2 ? > > > > > > There's a bit to do and often a few new unknowns each time around. > Unless someone else is willing to step in and do it, I'll need to do it > this week, or wait til June… > > > > > > *) We have agreed that we cut our first proper alphas in April (and > branching off trunk), so this should be to plan. > > > > > > This would kick off the alpha release lifecycle > definition/expectations. > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Release+Lifecycle > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 4 Apr 2026, at 00:00, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache > Cassandra version 6.0-alpha1. > > >> > > >> Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right > choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising > performance. > > >> > > >> https://cassandra.apache.org/ > > >> > > >> Source and binary distributions for this version can be downloaded > from: https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ > > >> > > >> This version is a quarterly alpha release[1] on the 6.0 series. > Please note, the cassandra-6.0 branch has not been created, and this > release does not start the alpha quality release lifecycle guidelines. > Quarterly alphas are intended only for development and testing purposes, > read more here: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/y3fyv596h83vwmpc85x4vpq78p1r12l4 > > >> > > >> As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and let us > know[3] if you encounter any problem. > > >> > > >> [WARNING] Debian and RedHat package repositories have moved! Debian > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list and RedHat > /etc/yum.repos.d/cassandra.repo files must be updated to the new repository > URLs. For Debian it is now https://debian.cassandra.apache.org < > https://debian.cassandra.apache.org/> . For RedHat it is now > https://redhat.cassandra.apache.org/60x/ . > > >> > > >> Enjoy! > > >> > > >> [1]: CHANGES.txt > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-6.0-alpha1/CHANGES.txt > > >> [2]: NEWS.txt > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-6.0-alpha1/NEWS.txt > > >> [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA > > >> > > >> > > > > > >
