Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

[Matt Kennedy]

As an old timer trying to figure out for himself how to re-engage on the
community side after being focused on Astra for so long, I would welcome
the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in
which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems  focused on the
business of running the project.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jeff Jirsa  wrote:

> New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
> channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll
> have the same problem).
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer  wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for
> newcomers
> > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
> > followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
> > newcomers.
> > This proposal makes total sense to me.
> >
> > What is your opinion on this? Do you have any concerns about it?
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
>
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Re: REST API?

[Matt Kennedy]

I have one based on restlet: https://github.com/stinkymatt/Helena

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Brian O'Neill  wrote:
> My team desperately needs a REST API for Cassandra.
>
> I saw the following:
> http://code.google.com/p/restish/
> from
> http://crlog.info/2011/01/29/restish-wrapper-for-hectorcassandra-data-manipulation/
>
> But it appears to have little activity and documentation.
>
> That lead me to start work on a contrib/rest module, but before I get to far
> I wanted to ask if there was any effort underway for a REST Server/API.
> If not, I'll continue developing the REST server.  Any preference for a REST
> stack?  (JAX-RS on Apache-CXF?  Raw Servlets? Netty? etc.)
>
> Until I hear back, I'll continue with the JAX-RS / Apache CXF implementation
> I have cooking.
>
> -brian
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