Cassandra 4.0 Status 2020-11-16

[Adam Holmberg <ad...@datastax.com>]

Good day everyone. I’m here with a 4.0 status email. We’ve been having
these in fits and starts, but after discussing in a couple fora, we’re
going to start them again in the interest of providing a bit of a pulse to
this release.

Jira board with 4.0 scope:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661

High level numbers by release phase:

Alpha: 2 (-0 from last update); 2 in-flight; no movement on board but there
has been work on their dependencies

Beta: 53 (-8); 32 in-flight

RC: 26 (+6);

Revising some high level metrics on the release:
Total tickets in 4.0: 1390 (+49)

Remaining tickets represent 5.5% of total scope (-0.4)

Created vs. resolved continues to trend positively:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport.jspa?projectOrFilterId=filter-12347782&periodName=daily&daysprevious=45&cumulative=true&versionLabels=major&selectedProjectId=12310865&reportKey=com.atlassian.jira.jira-core-reports-plugin%3Acreatedvsresolved-report&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED_a3bea645259beee42ed00c68f87626d5972705c4_lin&Next=Next

Where you can help:

* Each filter referenced below depends on accurate assignments in Jira. In
addition to actively assigning something you’re working on, it would also
be helpful to review and unassign (both Reviewer and Assignee) things that
you have assigned but may not be able to work on in the release timeline.
Here’s a query to check that for yourself:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12348585&jql=project%20%3D%20cassandra%20AND%20fixversion%20in%20(4.0%2C%204.0.0%2C%204.0-alpha%2C%204.0-beta%2C%204.0-rc%2C%204.0-alpha1%2C%204.0-alpha2%2C%204.0-alpha3%2C%204.0-alpha4%2C%204.0-alpha5%2C%204.0-alpha6%2C%204.0-beta-1%2C%204.0-beta1%2C%204.0-beta2%2C%204.0-beta3%2C%204.0-beta4)%20AND%20(resolution%20%3D%20unresolved%20OR%20status%20!%3D%20resolved)%20and%20(assignee%20%3D%20currentUser()%20or%20reviewer%20%3D%20currentUser()%20or%20reviewers%20%3D%20currentUser())%20


*Needs Reviewer:

4 Beta and 2 RC issues are awaiting review without reviewers.
Timely reviews here obviously keep things flowing, and help by keeping the
changes fresh in the patch contributor’s mind.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1659

*No assignee:
9 Beta and 5 RC issues

Please take a look and see if it’s within your capacity to take any of
these on:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1658

*Test analysis and shepherding. We possibly have a fair amount of
unaccounted scope in the Quality/Test tickets that have not been analyzed
and expanded into subtasks.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1939

Anything we can do to expedite that will give us a better picture of what’s
left, as well as allow us to parallelize test creation. Good examples of
those that have been broken down are the metrics and tooling areas:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15582

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15583

There are numerous similar tickets remaining.

*Tickets stalled for a week:
1 alpha, 11 beta, 7 GA

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1694

Please let us know on the thread if I have missed anything that needs
attention. I encourage anyone to respond to these reports calling attention
to any localized things that could use it.

As always thanks to everyone for the continued work on the project.


-Adam Holmberg