Re: [GSoC 2026] CEP-59 In-Band Connection Draining — Silas Maughan

[Jane H <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi Silas,

Glad to hear from you! Brad Schoening and I are the mentors of this CEP-59
project. Let's connect on Slack and discuss your proposal!

Sincerely,
Jane

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 3:49 AM Brandon Williams <dr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've sent an invite to your address.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Brandon
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 5:42 AM Silas Maughan <si...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Shailaja,
> >
> > Thank you for the warm welcome! I found the community page, would it be
> possible for you to please send me a guest ASF Slack invite to
> silas.maughan@gmail.com?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Silas
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM Shailaja Koppu <s_...@apple.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Silas,
> >>
> >> Welcome to the Apache Cassandra community. It’s great to hear from you,
> and we really appreciate the initiative you have shown. I’m not sure we
> have a formal list of mentors published anywhere. I’d recommend joining the
> ASF Slack workspace if you haven’t already—the Cassandra onboarding guide
> has the instructions. Once there, feel free to reach out directly to the
> CEP authors and the PMC members to help you connect to mentors in the
> relevant areas of the codebase.
> >>
> >> Glad to have you here, and looking forward to your contributions!
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Shailaja
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 30, 2026, at 11:50 PM, Silas Maughan <si...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am Silas Maughan, a Software Engineering BSc student at CODE
> University of Applied Science in Berlin. For the past year and a half I
> worked as a Computer Engineer at CERN, where I built and operated a
> production Apache Ozone and Hadoop storage cluster (~100 TB) supporting the
> High-Luminosity LHC. During that time I evaluated Apache Cassandra for
> certain storage workloads, developed novel undocumented integrations for
> Ozone, and have submitted an abstract to Community over Code this October
> to share these learnings with the Apache community.
> >>
> >> I have submitted a GSoC 2026 proposal for CASSANDRA-21191 (CEP-59
> in-band connection draining). I have read CEP-59 in full and studied the
> transport layer and drain path in StorageService. I would be grateful to
> connect with the listed mentors and welcome any feedback on my proposal.
> >>
> >> Apologies for the late contact! My research contract at CERN concluded
> last week and my priority was delivering a quality wrap-up of my work for
> Community over Code.
> >>
> >> GitHub: github.com/silvanias
> >> Proposal: submitted via the GSoC portal
> >>
> >>
> >> Best, Silas
> >>
> >>
>