Re: Proposal: fixed release schedule

2011-01-20 Thread Clint Byrum
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:19 -0800, Ryan King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 10:29 -0600, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > >> > The discussion seems to be petering out and I wonder if that means

Re: Proposal: fixed release schedule

2011-01-16 Thread Clint Byrum
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:11 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 14:32 -0800, Ryan King wrote: > > # Fixed schedule > > > > We should set a fixed schedule and stick to it. Anything features not > > ready at branch time won't make it and will be disabled in the stable > > branch. > > I

Cassandra Ubuntu "PPA"

2010-06-29 Thread Clint Byrum
I'd like to get all of your opinion on the PPA that we've built to help Cassandra users on Ubuntu. PPA stands for Personal Package Archive, and it is a system for building small apt repositories that users can easily add to their systems. As Eric Evans noted on IRC today, most users will be fin

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Debian [was: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu]

2010-06-08 Thread Clint Byrum
; unstable as well, but the cassandra package itself should be prevented >> from migrating to testing and kept out of stable. > > Yup. I mentioned precisely this to Clint Byrum on IRC yesterday. > Unfortunately, I don't think there is a comparable path that would > satisfy

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Debian

2010-06-04 Thread Clint Byrum
On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: >> So, the bigger problem here would seem to be one of long-term support. >> In other words, trying to find common ground between release cycles. > > I really think the issue of versions and support cycles is not that big > a deal. There are lot

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

2010-06-03 Thread Clint Byrum
On Jun 3, 2010, at 1:53 PM, paul cannon wrote: > > Probably not in cases where people want to use new releases; there is > a non-negligible time delay in getting packages into released or > "testing" suites of Ubuntu and Debian, and sometimes even into Debian > unstable. > > With cassandra being

Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

2010-06-03 Thread Clint Byrum
in Ubuntu. Specifically I'd like to address: * What is the perceived and real impact of Library versions diverging from Cassandra's shipped libraries over time. * We will most likely conflict with the Cassandra published debian packages. Is this acceptable? Suggested solutions? Thank you! Clint