Cassandra 4.0 Status 2021-03-25

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

Greetings. Here’s your look at Cassandra 4.0 release status for the week --
this one with 300% more exclamation points! Seven days since last update.


Jira board with 4.0 scope:

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


High level numbers by release phase:


Beta: 0! (-2); This week the project bottomed out on known blocking flaws!
The only thing ahead of an RC resolving the remaining flaky tests, and
getting a clean CI run.

RC: 20 (-18); 14 in-flight; in addition to plenty of good progress on
tickets in scope, some of the open-ended quality tickets were discussed and
moved to post-4.0.


Top-level metrics:

Total tickets in 4.0: 1609 (+1)

Remaining tickets represent 1.2% of total scope


Created vs. resolved trended solidly positive on this interval.


Where you can help:


* We’ve bottomed out on known flaws ahead of RC. There are flaky tests
keeping us from clean CI. Any time spent Investigating and stabilizing
tests is appreciated.

*Needs Reviewer:

1 RC tickets up for review with no reviewer

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


*No assignee:

zero!

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


*Tickets stalled for a week:

5 GA tickets stalled. The stall trend continues to diminish. More than half
of the stalled tickets have moved since last week.

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 hard work on the project.