Meeting Minutes

February 18, 2020. 10AM PST

Zoom information: Cassandra Contributor Meeting

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Agenda: Post agenda items below

  • ApacheCon CFP now open: send your talks, tell your friends
  • Jon Meredith - Project Status
  • Sidecar project - finding a lot of potential new contributors


Meeting Notes

Quick summary

ApacheCon is coming in September and we need good Cassandra talks. CFP is open and ready. Progress on issues has been moving faster with an Alpha3 release. There was a proposal to outline what’s needed to move to Beta. Look to the mailing list for that. Discussion about inviting more contributors to participate in the sidecar project. Docs project is moving along nicely with some big contributions being committed. 

ApacheCon CFP - Just go do it. A few talks have been submitted. 

https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp.html

Project update - Report link

Jon, Jordan and Josh are rotating

  • General progress - Things are moving. Closing more than opening. 
  • Python 3 support is committed
  • Docs is showing progress
  • If you have a moment, please help with flaky test
  • CASSANDRA-2848 discussion. Out of scope?
  • On Alpha 3. Are we ready for a Beta? Nothing egregius
  • Goal: Stable release we can be proud of. Not a date on the board
  • Proposal: Straw man proposal for shipping beta
    • Scott, Jordan, Jon, Vinay. Hands up on creating proposal; others welcome to join.
  • Take this discussion to the ML
  • Can somebody describe why we need to change the protocol spec? Aka expert opinion


Sidecar project

  • Patrick: Running into a lot of projects at various users
  • How best to invite them to participate?
  • Jira’s for now. ML discussions. 

Docs Project

  • Joey and Jon have committed many of the contributions from summer of code
  • Dynamo Arch - Many TODOs
  • Data Modeling chapter from Jeff Carpenter has been added
  • Updates coming in on operating Cassandra at scale
  • Send on Twitter about Doc updates
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