[DISCUSS] Formation of Apache Cassandra Publicity & Marketing Group

2023-01-19 Thread Patrick McFadin
*Hello Cassandra Community!We are at a pivotal moment for the Cassandra community, with the first Cassandra Summit in 7 years coming up on March 13th, and a major release coming later this year with Cassandra 5.0. It is important that we come together to set the publicity strategy and direction for

Re: [DISCUSS] Formation of Apache Cassandra Publicity & Marketing Group

2023-01-20 Thread Patrick McFadin
I would be happy to be one of the moderators. Not sure if that's singular or plural. :D Just need to know how to do it. Patrick On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:44 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > *To achieve this, we are proposing the formation of a Publicity & >> Marketing Working Group, and we are reque

Cassandra Summit update for 2023-01-24

2023-01-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
*Hello Cassandra Community!Quick take: - Register before 1/28 to get discount pricing. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/register/ - Use code CS23DS20 to get 20% off - Make sure and sign up for training the day on Mar

Re: [DISCUSS] Formation of Apache Cassandra Publicity & Marketing Group

2023-01-26 Thread Patrick McFadin
subscribe from. > > If you are a committer you can alternately use Whimsy: > https://whimsy.apache.org/committers/subscribe > > regards, > Mick > > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 00:31, Patrick McFadin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Evolving governance in the Cassandra Ecosystem

2023-01-30 Thread Patrick McFadin
This is really game-changing and an important change for the Cassandra community. I would like to think that creating a governance structure like this will help get more ecosystem projects under the umbrella of Apache Cassandra. Thank you PMC, for spending the time to create this very needed frame

Re: [DISCUSS] API modifications and when to raise a thread on the dev ML

2023-02-02 Thread Patrick McFadin
API changes are near and dear to my world. The scope of changes could be minor or major, so I think B is the right way forward. Not to throw off the momentum, but could this even warrant a separate CEP in some cases? For example, CEP-15 is a huge change, but the CQL syntax will continuously evolve

Important news about Cassandra Summit

2023-02-03 Thread Patrick McFadin
*Hello Cassandra Community,We all see what’s happening in tech right now. Cuts are being made, and budgets are frozen. For Cassandra Summit, this has translated to low sponsorship and registrations. The program committee has been discussing options with the Linux Foundation events team, and the dec

Re: Welcome Patrick McFadin as Cassandra Committer

2023-02-05 Thread Patrick McFadin
t 5:25 PM, Molly Monroy wrote: >> >> Congrats, Patrick... much deserved! >> >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 1:59 PM Derek Chen-Becker >> wrote: >> >> Congrats! >> >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 10:58 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote: >> >> The PMC members ar

Re: [VOTE] CEP-21 Transactional Cluster Metadata

2023-02-06 Thread Patrick McFadin
No more nodetool createepochunsafe! +1 This is going to be another big merge. Just bookmarking the discussions last week on CEP-15. On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 9:57 AM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > +1 > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 8:16 AM Sam Tunnicliffe wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I would like to start a

Re: Welcome our next PMC Chair Josh McKenzie

2023-03-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
Congrats Josh. This is an excellent acknowledgment of your awesome contributions to the Cassandra projects. Mick you left some big shoes to fill. Thank you for your service and for being an endless advocate for the project. Patrick On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 8:03 AM Paulo Motta wrote: > Thanks Mi

Re: Google Season of Docs

2023-04-03 Thread Patrick McFadin
It hardly feels like a loss looking at the fantastic projects that were selected. Thanks for leading this charge Lorina! Patrick On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 11:39 AM lorinapoland wrote: > Sadly, I am informing the community that our grant application to GSoD was > unsuccessful. > > If you would like

Re: [VOTE] CEP-26: Unified Compaction Strategy

2023-04-06 Thread Patrick McFadin
+1 Thanks to Lorina for getting people excited about it at Cassandra Forward! On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 10:37 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > +1 > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 19:32, Francisco Guerrero > wrote: > >> +1 (nb) >> >> On 2023/04/06 17:30:37 Josh McKenzie wrote: >> > +1 >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 6,

Re: [DISCUSS] CEP-29 CQL NOT Operator

2023-04-06 Thread Patrick McFadin
I love that this is finally coming to Cassandra. Absolutely hate that, once again, we'll be endorsing the use of ALLOW FILTERING. This is an anti-pattern that keeps getting legitimized. Hot take: Should we just not do Milestones 1 and 2 and wait for an index-only Milestone 3? Patrick On Thu, Apr

Re: [DISCUSS] Introduce DATABASE as an alternative to KEYSPACE

2023-04-09 Thread Patrick McFadin
I love the debate that surfaces occasionally, but I have to agree that KEYSPACE and SCHEMA are doing the job. There is a learning curve with Cassandra data modeling, and keywords are a minor problem. Issues that hit every user: 1. Creating the correct primary key 2. Avoiding the urge to index all-

Re: Adding vector search to SAI with heirarchical navigable small world graph index

2023-04-25 Thread Patrick McFadin
Not sure if this is what you are saying, Josh, but I believe this needs to be its own CEP. It's a change in CQL syntax and changes how clusters operate. The change needs to be documented and voted on. Jonathan, you know how to find me if you want me to help write it. :) As a side comment to all of

Re: Adding vector search to SAI with heirarchical navigable small world graph index

2023-04-26 Thread Patrick McFadin
25, 2023 at 10:53 PM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > I was soo happy when I saw this, I know many users are going to be > thrilled about it. > > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 05:15, Patrick McFadin wrote: > >> Not sure if this is what you are saying, Josh, but I believe this needs

Re: [DISCUSS] New data type for vector search

2023-04-28 Thread Patrick McFadin
> > So is the goal here to provide something specific and idiomatic for the ML > community or is the goal to make a primitive that's C*-centric that then > another layer can write to? I personally argue for the former; I don't see > this specific data type going away any time soon. +1 on this con

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-02 Thread Patrick McFadin
A > B > C on both polls. Having talked to several users in the community that are highly excited about this change, this gets to what developers want to do at Cassandra scale: store embeddings and retrieve them. On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 11:47 AM Andrés de la Peña wrote: > A > B > C > > I don't th

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-02 Thread Patrick McFadin
(note: for the type, not the ANN). > > I am surprised, and the blurbs accompanying votes so far don’t seem to > touch on this, mostly just endorsing the idea of a vector. > > > On 2 May 2023, at 20:20, Patrick McFadin wrote: > >  > A > B > C on both polls. > &g

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-02 Thread Patrick McFadin
k. But hey ho. > > On 2 May 2023, at 20:57, Patrick McFadin wrote: > >  > I'll speak up on that one. If you look at my ranked voting, that is where > my head is. I get accused of scope creep (a lot) and looking at the initial > proposal Jonathan put on the ML it was mos

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-02 Thread Patrick McFadin
r this use case and for the supporting drivers/clients. >> >> On May 2, 2023, at 3:04 PM, Benedict wrote: >> >> But it’s so trivial it was already implemented by David in the span of >> ten minutes? If anything, we’re slowing progress down by refusing to do the >>

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-04 Thread Patrick McFadin
I agree with David's reasoning and the use of DENSE (and maybe eventually SPARSE). This is terminology well established in the data world, and it would lead to much easier adoption from users. VECTOR is close, but I can see having to create a lot of content around "How to use it and not get in trou

Re: [VOTE] CEP-28: Reading and Writing Cassandra Data with Spark Bulk Analytics

2023-05-04 Thread Patrick McFadin
As somebody who gave this talk: https://youtu.be/9xf_IXNylhM I love the evolution of this topic. Excited to see this! ++1 nb Patrick On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 11:35 AM C. Scott Andreas wrote: > +1nb. > > As someone familiar with this work, it's pretty hard to overstate the > impact it has on com

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-05 Thread Patrick McFadin
n* for >>> the HSNW case. >>> >>> If that isn't intuitive to anyone else, I don't really have a strong >>> opinion...but...conflating "frozen" and "dense" seems like a bad idea. One >>> should indicate single vs. multi-cell,

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-05 Thread Patrick McFadin
to mind. > > I'd also be happy with us supporting: > * NON-NULL FROZEN > * DENSE_VECTOR as syntactic sugar for the above > > If getting into the "built-in syntactic sugar mapping for communities and > specific use-cases" is something we're willing to consider

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-05 Thread Patrick McFadin
e vote as the list looked like a > summary, but you mentioned the first was your preference > > *Syntax* > > *Jonathan Ellis* > > *David Capwell* > > *Josh McKenzie* > > *Caleb Rackliffe* > > *Patrick McFadin* > > *Brandon Williams* > > *Mike Adamson*

Re: [POLL] Vector type for ML

2023-05-05 Thread Patrick McFadin
gt; type. DENSE VECTOR means I need to go read docs (and then probably > double-check in the source to be sure) to be sure what exactly is going on. > > Cheers, > > Derek > > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 9:54 AM Patrick McFadin wrote: > >> I hope we are willing to consider d

Re: CEP-30: Approximate Nearest Neighbor(ANN) Vector Search via Storage-Attached Indexes

2023-05-09 Thread Patrick McFadin
Under the goals section, there is this line: 1. Scatter/gather across replicas, combining topK from each to get global topK. But what I'm hearing is, exactly how will that happen? Maybe this is an SAI question too. How is that verified in SAI? On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM David Capwel

Re: [VOTE] CEP-29 CQL NOT Operator

2023-05-09 Thread Patrick McFadin
+1 On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 10:58 AM Caleb Rackliffe wrote: > +1 > > On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:04 PM Piotr Kołaczkowski > wrote: > >> Let's vote. >> >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-29%3A+CQL+NOT+operator >> >> Piotr Kołaczkowski >> e. pkola...@datastax.com >> w. ww

Re: [DISCUSS] The future of CREATE INDEX

2023-05-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
Having pulled a lot of developers out of the 2i fire, I would love it if defaults got a bit more sane. Adding USING...WITH... on CREATE INDEX seems like the right move for most developers that don't read docs and assume behavior. As much as I hate that 2i would be the configured default, I get it.

Re: [DISCUSS] The future of CREATE INDEX

2023-05-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
appens is super visible in both NEWS and simultaneously updates the > to-string / to-cql representation of the schema in cqlsh / drivers / > snapshots > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 8:27 PM Patrick McFadin > wrote: > >> Having pulled a lot of developers out of the 2i fire, I w

Re: [DISCUSS] The future of CREATE INDEX

2023-05-15 Thread Patrick McFadin
1 Yes 4 On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 3:00 AM Benedict wrote: > 3: CREATE INDEX (Otherwise 2) > No > If configurable, should be a distributed configuration. This is very > different to other local configurations, as the 2i selected has semantic > implications, not just performance (and the perf imp

Re: Vector search demo, and query syntax

2023-05-23 Thread Patrick McFadin
| I first stumbled a bit with "there's no where clause and no filtering allowed…" | But I doubt that reaction from any experienced cql user will last more than a moment. I was also wondering about that, but this syntax looks good. More importantly, it will be easy to explain to end users. Patrick

Re: [VOTE] CEP-30 ANN Vector Search

2023-05-25 Thread Patrick McFadin
+1 Love the buzz this creating with new users. Thanks for the work on this Jonathan. On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 8:45 AM Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Let's make this official. > > CEP: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-30%3A+Approximate+Nearest+Neighbor%28ANN%29+Vector+Search+vi

Re: [VOTE] CEP-30 ANN Vector Search

2023-06-14 Thread Patrick McFadin
Andy, Good to see you on the ML again! CEP-30 is slated for release with 5.0 later in the year. Until then, you'll need to do a local build or try it out in a preview in Astra. A few of us have been talking about creating a preview docker image since there is some interest in having it run in k8ss

Re: [VOTE] CEP-8 Datastax Drivers Donation

2023-06-14 Thread Patrick McFadin
+1 On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 2:39 PM Adam Holmberg wrote: > +1 > > (long time coming!) > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 3:51 AM Jorge Bay Gondra > wrote: > >> +1 nb >> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 9:13 AM Sam Tunnicliffe wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> On 13 Jun 2023, at 15:14, Jeremy Hanna >>> wrote: >>> >>

Re: [VOTE] CEP 33 - CIDR filtering authorizer

2023-06-28 Thread Patrick McFadin
+1 On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:42 AM Brandon Williams wrote: > +1 > > Kind Regards, > Brandon > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 12:17 PM Shailaja Koppu wrote: > > > > Hi Team, > > > > (Starting a new thread for VOTE instead of reusing the DISCUSS thread, > to follow usual procedure). > > > > Please v

Re: CASSANDRA-18654 - start publishing CQLSH to PyPI as part of the release process

2023-07-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
I would say it helps a lot of people. 45k downloads in just last month: https://pypistats.org/packages/cqlsh I feel like a CEP would be in order, along the lines of CEP-8: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-8%3A+Datastax+Drivers+Donation Unless anyone objects, I can help yo

[DISCUSS] Conducting a User Survey

2023-07-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
For quite a few years, I have done Twitter polls to gather helpful information about how people use Apache Cassandra. Twitter is no longer the best place to conduct this kind of activity since it has become a ghost town. We should ask more comprehensive questions to get the pulse of our user commu

Apache Cassandra User Survey

2023-07-15 Thread Patrick McFadin
It’s been a long time since I’ve asked the community for feedback in a poll or otherwise. A lot is changing in the data world, and we have an exciting Cassandra release coming up with v5! I would like to ask for five or ten minutes of your time to answer some questions about how you use Cassandra a

Who wants a free Cassandra t-shirt?

2023-07-21 Thread Patrick McFadin
We have about another week left on the user survey I posted last week. The response has been slow, so it's time to get things in gear. I found a box of Cassandra t-shirts that will make an excellent thank you for anyone filling out the survey. Once the survey window closes, I'll pick a random grou

Raw results from User Survey

2023-08-01 Thread Patrick McFadin
Thanks to everyone who participated in this survey. We had a significant enough responses to give this a legitimacy. 220 responses! I wanted to get the raw results out first so everyone can participate with the full picture. I'll work on a blog post to post on the Apache web site after this is do

Re: [Discuss] ​​CEP-35: Add PIP support for CQLSH

2023-08-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
Dinesh raises some good points. If we do adopt this, there will be non-zero overhead of the release process. This is fine but we need volunteers to run this process. My understanding is that they need to be ideally PMC or at least Committers on the project to go through all the steps to successful

Cassandra Summit Update!

2023-10-15 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hello Cassandra Community, Below you'll find the updated announcement being posted on the Cassandra website. The short version for short attention spans: - Cassandra Summit will be co-located with the AI.Dev conference. One ticket, two conferences. - CFP for an AI track for the Cassandra Summit

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-23 Thread Patrick McFadin
I'm really surprised to see this email. The last I heard everything was on track for getting into 5.0 and TBH and Accord is what a majority of users are expecting in 5.0. And how could this be a .1 release? What is it going to take to get it into 5.0? What is off track and how did we get here? On

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-23 Thread Patrick McFadin
I’m going to be clearer in my statement. This has to be in 5.0, even if it’s alpha and ships after December, or this is going to be disaster that will take us much longer to unravel. On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:49 AM Jeremiah Jordan wrote: > +1 from me assuming we have tickets and two committer +

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
+1 to what you are saying, Josh. Based on the last survey, yes, everyone was excited about Accord, but SAI and UCS were pretty high on the list. Benedict and I had a good conversation last night, and now I understand more essential details for this conversation. TCM is taking far more work than in

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
r than holding it back. If there's 2 big releases in 6 >> months the community isn't any worse off. >> >> We either ship something, or nothing, and something is probably better. >> >> Jon >> >> >> On 2023/10/24 16:27:04 Patrick McFadin wrote: >&

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
o the project can cut artifacts for and release a 5.1-alpha1, > 5.1-dev-preview1, what ever we want to version this thing, from trunk or > any other branch name we want. > > -Jeremiah > > On Oct 24, 2023 at 2:03:41 PM, Patrick McFadin wrote: > > I would like to have somethi

Re: Project Status Update: 90-day catch-up edition [2023-10-27]

2023-10-27 Thread Patrick McFadin
Sent you an invite Sam. Welcome to the community! On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:31 AM Sam wrote: > Please can I have an invite to the Slack workspace on this email. I'd like > to take a look through some of the items for first time contributors :-) > > Thanks! > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 18:10, Josh

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-30 Thread Patrick McFadin
d there's definitely > the desire and demand to do so, so it won't be getting forgotten or > down-prioritised. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 18:07, Jeremiah Jordan < > jeremiah.jor...@gmail.com<

Time to register for the Cassandra Summit 2023!

2023-11-09 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone! I'm going to keep this short, but it's time to gather the Cassandra community. December 12-13 in San Jose. Earlybird registration pricing ends November 21 so don't delay. Registration page: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/register/ Use my discount code for 20% off

Re: Time to register for the Cassandra Summit 2023!

2023-11-09 Thread Patrick McFadin
/travel-funding/ I hope many of you will take advantage of this program and join us in San Jose! Patrick On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:15 AM Patrick McFadin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm going to keep this short, but it's time to gather the Cassandra > community. December 12-13

Cassandra Summit: Early registration discount ends tomorrow

2023-11-20 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, If you've registered for Cassandra Summit, then ignore this email. If not! Time to get moving. The deadline ends tomorrow. Link to register: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/register/ Discount code: 23CS20 (Yes you can use it with the early registration price) I

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-beta1

2023-11-28 Thread Patrick McFadin
I'm a +1 on a beta now vs maybe later. Beta doesn't imply perfect especially if there are declared known issues. We need people outside of this tight group using it and finding issues. I know how this rolls. Very few people touch a Alpha release. Beta is when the engine starts and we need to get it

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-beta1

2023-11-28 Thread Patrick McFadin
is cut was released as another >> alpha and we do beta1 once the known fixes land? >> >> On Nov 28, 2023, at 12:21 PM, J. D. Jordan >> wrote: >> >>  >> -0 (NB) on this cut. Given the concerns expressed so far in the thread I >> would think we should re-cu

Cassandra Summit: Engage those networks!

2023-11-29 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, We are a couple of weeks away from Cassandra Summit. People get busy and forget to register or miss that there is even a summit happening. Let's make sure everyone who wants to go gets a chance! - If you are going, get on the social media of your choice and let everyone know you'll

Re: Welcome Francisco Guerrero Hernandez as Cassandra Committer

2023-11-30 Thread Patrick McFadin
Congratulations and welcome, Francisco! On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 2:45 AM Maxim Muzafarov wrote: > My congratulations, Francisco! :-) > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 13:30, Andrés de la Peña > wrote: > > > > Congrats Francisco! > > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 11:37, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > >> > >> Con

Re: Introducing the Cassandra Catalyst program!

2023-12-01 Thread Patrick McFadin
So excited for this program! It's been a long time coming but wow, what a great way to recognize individuals advocating for Cassandra in their own communities. Let's get out there and start nominating! Patrick On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:51 AM Melissa Logan wrote: > The Cassandra community is exc

Re: Welcome Mike Adamson as Cassandra committer

2023-12-08 Thread Patrick McFadin
Yay! Congratulations Mike. Well deserved! On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 7:00 AM Andrés de la Peña wrote: > Congrats Mike! > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 14:53, Jeremiah Jordan > wrote: > >> Congrats Mike! Thanks for all your work on SAI and Vector index. Well >> deserved! >> >> On Dec 8, 2023 at 8:52:07

Can't make it to Cassandra Summit but want to see the talks?

2023-12-11 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, The Linux Foundation will be streaming all of the talks from the Cassandra Summit. Finding the streams is very easy. Go to the conference schedule: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/program/schedule/ Each talk has a YouTube link associated with it. The Keynotes and

Re: Harry in-tree (Forked from "Long tests, Burn tests, Simulator tests, Fuzz tests - can we clarify the diffs?")

2023-12-22 Thread Patrick McFadin
It was great having some more extended discussions about Harry in person last week. Anything we can do to make it easier for anyone to test Cassandra thoroughly is an easy +1 from me! Thanks for all your efforts so far, Alex. Patrick On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 8:03 AM Jacek Lewandowski < lewandowsk

Re: Welcome Maxim Muzafarov as Cassandra Committer

2024-01-08 Thread Patrick McFadin
Congratulations Maxim! Thank you for all you've done in the project and everything to come! Patrick On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 12:32 PM Miklosovic, Stefan via dev < dev@cassandra.apache.org> wrote: > Great news! Congratulations. > > > From: Josh McKenzie > S

Re: Welcome Brad Schoening as Cassandra Committer

2024-02-21 Thread Patrick McFadin
Yay! Congrats Brad! On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM Jeremy Hanna wrote: > Congratulations Brad! > > On Feb 21, 2024, at 3:59 PM, Leo Toff wrote: > > Congratulations Brad! Thank you for helping me onboard 🙏 > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM Jeremiah Jordan > wrote: > >> Congrats! >> >> On Feb

Re: Welcome Alexandre Dutra, Andrew Tolbert, Bret McGuire, Olivier Michallat as Cassandra Committers

2024-04-17 Thread Patrick McFadin
Congratulations, everyone. I am loving this new direction for the project! On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM Yifan Cai wrote: > Congrats all > -- > *From:* Josh McKenzie > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 17, 2024 11:05:29 AM > *To:* dev > *Subject:* Re: Welcome Alexandre Du

Re: [DISCUSS] CEP-40: Data Transfer Using Cassandra Sidecar for Live Migrating Instances

2024-04-23 Thread Patrick McFadin
I finally got a chance to digest this CEP and am happy to see it raised. This feature has been left to the end user for far too long. It might get roasted for scope creep, but here goes. Related and something that I've heard for years is the ability to migrate a single keyspace away from a set of

Re: [DISCUSS] Adding support for BETWEEN operator

2024-05-13 Thread Patrick McFadin
This is a great feature addition to CQL! I get asked about it from time to time but then people figure out a workaround. It will be great to just have it available. And right on Simon! I think the only project I had as a high school senior was figuring out how many parties I could go to and still

Re: NGCC 2018?

2018-07-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
Ben, Lynn Bender had offered a space the day before Distributed Data Summit in September (http://distributeddatasummit.com/) since we are both platinum sponsors. I thought he and Nate had talked about that being a good place for NGCC since many of us will be in town already. Nate, now that I've s

Re: Apache Cassandra Virtual meetings

2019-08-12 Thread Patrick McFadin
If it works for everyone, DataStax has some resources we could put to this effort. We do large scale conferences like this all the time and have the tools to pull it off. It would be a small group of people with full duplex audio and video with the ability for 100s of people to watch in streaming.

Re: Offering some project management services

2020-01-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
Scott and I had a talk this week and we are starting the contributor meetings on 1/22 as we talked about at NGCC. (Yeah that was back in September) Stay tuned for the details and agenda in the project confluence page. Patrick On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 3:21 PM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2

Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-01-13 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, In order to catch up on what's happening here, here's the establishing thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/aa54420a43671c00392978f2b0920bc6926ca9ba1e61a486ad39fb21%40%3Cdev.cassandra.apache.org%3E Key points that Scott Andreas proposed in the initial email was Motivation fo

Re: Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-01-13 Thread Patrick McFadin
And I sent this without saying when. Let me save you a click on the confluence link. January 21, 1PM PST On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:28 PM Patrick McFadin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In order to catch up on what's happening here, here's the establishing > thread: >

Contributor Meeting summary for 2020-01-21

2020-01-22 Thread Patrick McFadin
rotating.” - Windows question: potentially a question to the user@ list if there are contributors willing to test / contribute patches for Windows. - Jeremy Hanna: Discuss changes to defaults prior to 4.0 release. - Patrick McFadin: Start discussion on dev list to settle time for next

Re: Cassandra CI Status

2020-01-27 Thread Patrick McFadin
I would love to get involved promoting those if and when a list produced. Could this be something as a Cassandra confluence page? I would be happy to volunteer some time keeping that up-to-date. Patrick On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:49 AM Joshua McKenzie wrote: > > > > an entry in the progress repo

Feedback from the last Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-02-03 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, One action item I took from our first contributor meeting was gather feedback for the next meetings. I've created a short survey if you would like to offer feedback. I'll let it run for the week and report back on the results. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C95B7ZP Thanks, Patrick

Re: Feedback from the last Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-02-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
Just a Monday reminder on the survey link I sent. I got a few responses but could use a few more to give us some decent N. If you have < 5minutes today, I would appreciate your feedback. I'll keep it open until tomorrow and then send results. Patrick On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 4:21 PM

Re: Ideas for Cassandra 2020 - Remote Meetups / Mastermind

2020-02-10 Thread Patrick McFadin
Rahul, Don't cut yourself short. I love what you've done with Awesome Cassandra and organizing meetups. Those are really valuable contributions. For everyone else on this ML, if you don't know about Awesome Cassandra. Rahul picked it up and has been keeping it up to date. https://cassandra.link/a

Re: Feedback from the last Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-02-11 Thread Patrick McFadin
atrick On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:28 AM Patrick McFadin wrote: > Just a Monday reminder on the survey link I sent. I got a few responses > but could use a few more to give us some decent N. If you have < 5minutes > today, I would appreciate your feedback. I'll keep it open unt

Re: Feedback from the last Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-02-12 Thread Patrick McFadin
you, Patrick! > > > On Feb 11, 2020, at 3:05 PM, Patrick McFadin wrote: > > > > Survey is closed. Thank you everyone that took time to give your > feedback. > > Here are the results: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-7YTMZYLT7/ > > > > Based on the

Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting 2020-02-18

2020-02-12 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, A page has been setup for the Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting on February 18. The time in the rotation will be 10AM PST You can add your agenda items here. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/2020-02-18+Apache+Cassandra+Contributor+Meeting The Zoom link for th

Sidecar meeting notes from 2020-03-10

2020-03-13 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, This week, a small group of us met on Zoom on how to contribute best to the sidecar project (CEP-1). DataStax is open sourcing several components, one of which includes a management sidecar. This was open conversation about what's being released and how best to participate in CEP-1 in

Re: Sidecar meeting notes from 2020-03-10

2020-03-13 Thread Patrick McFadin
;s possible I > missed an email but don't see anything). > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:26 AM Patrick McFadin > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > This week, a small group of us met on Zoom on how to contribute best to > the > > sidecar project (CEP-1). Data

Re: Sidecar meeting notes from 2020-03-10

2020-03-15 Thread Patrick McFadin
Since there seems to be more energy building on the sidecar project, would it be helpful to do a monthly Zoom like we do with contributors. Or maybe just add that in? On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:13 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > Where was this announced? I didnt hear anything about it (it's possibl

2020-03-24 Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-03-23 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, It's easy to loose track of thing given how quickly things have changed in the past couple of weeks. I missed sending a reminder last week but we have a contributor meeting tomorrow at 11AM PST. Please post any agenda items to the cwiki page below. If you don't have edit rights, just

Re: Kubernetes operator unification

2020-03-31 Thread Patrick McFadin
*Thanks for starting this thread Ben! Definitely agree that having a single project-owned Kubernetes operator for Cassandra is preferred over a fragmented ecosystem. I'll echo the same sentiment based on conversations that it appears the community is eager to share experiences and implementations i

Re: Kubernetes operator unification

2020-03-31 Thread Patrick McFadin
ST morning and evening. > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:51 PM Patrick McFadin > wrote: > > > *Thanks for starting this thread Ben! Definitely agree that having a > single > > project-owned Kubernetes operator for Cassandra is preferred over a > > fragmented ecosystem. I&#x

Kubernetes Operator SIG Zoom

2020-04-06 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi, I have sorted out the time zones and got the initial Kubernetes Operator zoom call on the calendar. All of it is documented here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Kubernetes+Operator+SIG+Meeting Meeting 1(APAC/Western US Friendly) San Francisco: April 8, 5:00PM Singapor

Re: Kubernetes Operator SIG Zoom

2020-04-14 Thread Patrick McFadin
myself will start that process which will live in the Cassandra cwiki for everyone to contribute. There was also consensus on having bi-weekly meetings at the same times which I will schedule. Thanks to everyone who participated! Patrick On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:25 PM Patrick McFadin wrote: >

Meeting notes and recording from today's meeting

2020-04-21 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Here are the notes and video recording from today's meeting: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/2020-04-21+Apache+Cassandra+Contributor+Meeting I updated the meeting details with an ICS to import into your own calendar to make it easy to schedule. https://cwiki.apa

Re: DataStax Driver Donation to Apache Cassandra Project

2020-04-22 Thread Patrick McFadin
It would probably be a good idea to get some outside guidance on what other projects have seen because like what Nate said, this isn't the first time. https://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects.html https://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/ Commons has components: http://commons.apache.org/co

Re: Kubernetes Operator SIG Zoom

2020-04-22 Thread Patrick McFadin
...@orange.com > Casskop Product Owner > https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/casskop > > > > > On 15 Apr 2020, at 02:17, Patrick McFadin wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > A little late, but wanted to update post meeting. Here are the notes an

4-26-2020 update on Kubernetes Operator

2020-04-26 Thread Patrick McFadin
*Hi everyone,Over the past two weeks, we have had 4 public meetings with a lot of great discussions. You can find the recordings and notes here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG

2020-05-07 Cassandra Kubernetes Operator SIG reminder

2020-05-07 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Cassandra Kubernetes Operator SIG today at 10AM PST. Just a reminder, I switched the conference link to Jitsi from Zoom. Link in the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG Today we will be discussing CEP-2 so bring your opinions.

2020-05-07 Cassandra Kubernetes SIG meeting follow-up

2020-05-11 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, A little late getting the page and recording up. You can find the recording here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/2020-05-07+Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG The notes for this week's meeting we're taken int he working CEP gdoc found here: https://docs.google.

[discussion]Completing CEP-2

2020-05-11 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Last week in our Cassandra Kubernetes SIG it was clear that we are coming up on the completion of the specifications for CEP-2. The path we on look something like this: - Agree to the overall specifications for a Cassandra Kubernetes Operator with as much details as possible on the

Reminder - 2020-05-19 Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-05-18 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Reminder that tomorrow at 1PM PST we'll be having a contributor meeting. I gave Jitsi a try for the Kubernetes SIG but ran into a lot of trouble with browser compatibility and recording. I'll just stick with using Zoom to keep it working consistently. https://datastax.zoom.us/j/39083

Re: Reminder - 2020-05-19 Apache Cassandra Contributor Meeting

2020-05-19 Thread Patrick McFadin
Thanks Mick! On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:51 PM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > I'll be there and have added "Cassandra CI Run-through, next steps, > help needed, and Q&A" to the agenda. > If you have questions on CI turn up and ask them. > > Mick > > > On

2020-05-19 Contributor Meeting notes and recording

2020-05-20 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Meeting notes and recording up here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/2020-05-19+Apache+Cassandra+Contributor+Meeting Patrick

Cassandra Kubernetes SIG today

2020-05-21 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Quick reminder, Cassandra Kubernetes Operator SIG at the top of the hour. I've switched back to using Zoom to avoid the issues we had with Jitsi. The link to the meeting is here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG Calendar object

Cassandra Kubernetes SIG 2020-05-21 note and recording

2020-05-24 Thread Patrick McFadin
Hi everyone, Last weeks meeting is posted here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/2020-05-19+Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG Highlights: This is a big task trying to get multiple operators in the wild to one closer to the project. The CEP is at a place where we need to get

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