Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-24 Thread Josh McKenzie
> I would like to propose a partial freeze of 5.0 in June My .02: +1 to: * partial freeze on an agreed upon date w/agreed upon other things that can optionally go in after * setting a hard limit on when we ship from that frozen branch regardless of whether the features land or not -1 to: * ever

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-24 Thread Brandon Williams
I am +1 on a 5.0 branch freeze. Kind Regards, Brandon On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 8:54 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote: >> >> Would that be a trunk freeze, or freeze of a cassandra-5.0 branch? > > > I was thinking of a cassandra-5.0 branch freeze. So branching 5.0 and > allowing only CEP-15 and 21 + bug fi

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-24 Thread Benjamin Lerer
> > Would that be a trunk freeze, or freeze of a cassandra-5.0 branch? I was thinking of a cassandra-5.0 branch freeze. So branching 5.0 and allowing only CEP-15 and 21 + bug fixes there. Le ven. 24 mars 2023 à 13:55, Paulo Motta a écrit : > > I would like to propose a partial freeze of 5.0 in

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-24 Thread Paulo Motta
> I would like to propose a partial freeze of 5.0 in June. Would that be a trunk freeze, or freeze of a cassandra-5.0 branch? I agree with a branch freeze, but not with trunk freeze. I might work on small features after June and would be happy to delay releasing these on 5.0+, but delaying merge

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-24 Thread Mick Semb Wever
> I would like to propose a partial freeze of 5.0 in June. > … > This partial freeze will be valid for every new feature except CEP-21 and > CEP-15. > +1 Thanks for summarising the thread this way Benjamin. This addresses my two main concerns: letting the branch/release date slip too much into t

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-24 Thread Benjamin Lerer
;>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> We shouldn't release just for releases sake. Are there enough new >>>>> features and are they working well enough (quality!). >>>>> >>>>> The big feature from our perspective for 5.0 is ACCORD (

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-16 Thread Mike Adamson
y working well enough (quality!). >>>> >>>> The big feature from our perspective for 5.0 is ACCORD (CEP-15) and I >>>> would advocate to delay until this has sufficient quality to be in >>>> production. >>>> >>>> Just because

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-13 Thread Ekaterina Dimitrova
would advocate to delay until this has sufficient quality to be in >>>> production. >>>> >>>> Just because something is released doesn't mean anyone is gonna use it. >>>> To add some operator perspective: Every time there is a new release we need

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-13 Thread Berenguer Blasi
rman *From:* Benedict *Sent:* Wednesday, March 1, 2023 5:59 AM *To:* dev@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date It doesn’t look like we agreed to a policy of annual branch dat

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-13 Thread Mike Adamson
;> To add some operator perspective: Every time there is a new release we need >>> to decide >>> 1) are we supporting it >>> 2) which other release can we deprecate >>> >>> and potentially migrate people - which is also a tough sell if there are

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-13 Thread Andrés de la Peña
> > Should we clarify that part first by getting an idea of the status of the > different CEPs and other big pieces of work? CEP-20 (dynamic data masking) should hopefully be ready by the end of this month. It's composed by seven small tickets. Five of those tickets are ready, and two are under

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Mick Semb Wever
> > > One place we've been weak historically is in distinguishing between > > > tickets we consider "nice to have" and things that are "blockers". We > > > don't have any metadata that currently distinguishes those two, so > > > determining what our burndown leading up to 5.0 looks like is a lot

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Josh McKenzie
> We do have the metadata, but yes it requires some work… My wording was poor; we have the *potential* to have this metadata, but to my knowledge we don't have a muscle of consistently setting this, or any kind of heuristic to determine when something should block a release or not. At least on 4

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Mick Semb Wever
> > One place we've been weak historically is in distinguishing between > tickets we consider "nice to have" and things that are "blockers". We don't > have any metadata that currently distinguishes those two, so determining > what our burndown leading up to 5.0 looks like is a lot more data massag

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Ekaterina Dimitrova
There is also this roadmap page but we haven’t updated it lately. It contains still 4.1 updates from last year. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Roadmap On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 13:51, Josh McKenzie wrote: > Added an "Epics" quick filter; could help visualize what our high pri

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Josh McKenzie
Added an "Epics" quick filter; could help visualize what our high priority features are for given releases: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=484&quickFilter=2649 Our cumulative flow diagram of 5.0 related tickets is pretty large. Probably not a great indicator for

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Mick Semb Wever
> > I've also found some useful Cassandra's JIRA dashboards for previous > releases to track progress and scope, but we don't have anything > similar for the next release. Should we create it? > Cassandra 4.0GAScope > Cassandra 4.1 GA scope > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Maxim Muzafarov
>>> 2) which other release can we deprecate >>> >>> and potentially migrate people - which is also a tough sell if there are no >>> significant features and/or breaking changes. So from my perspective less >>> frequent releases are better - after all we haven't got

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-09 Thread Branimir Lambov
support 4.1 🙂 >> >> The 5.0 release is also coupled with deprecating 3.11 which is what a >> significant amount of people are using - given 4.1 took longer I am not >> sure how many people are assuming that 5 will be delayed and haven't made >> plans (OpenJDK s

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-06 Thread Benjamin Lerer
3.11 which is what a > significant amount of people are using - given 4.1 took longer I am not > sure how many people are assuming that 5 will be delayed and haven't made > plans (OpenJDK support for 8 is longer than Java 17 🙂) . So being a bit > more deliberate with releasing 5.0 a

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-04 Thread Josh McKenzie
ven 4.1 took longer I am not sure > how many people are assuming that 5 will be delayed and haven't made plans > (OpenJDK support for 8 is longer than Java 17 🙂) . So being a bit more > deliberate with releasing 5.0 and having a longer beta phase are all things > we should co

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-03 Thread German Eichberger via dev
: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 5:59 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date It doesn’t look like we agreed to a policy of annual branch dates, only annual releases and that we would schedule this for 4.1 based on 4.0’s branch date. Given this was the reasonin