Cassandra 4.0 Status 2021-04-01

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

Greetings. Here’s your look at Cassandra 4.0 release status for the week.
Seven days since last update.

To begin by summarizing a few things from elsewhere on the list this week:
After observing clean CI last week, an RC was cut and a vote started on
Monday. Thursday saw the vote cut short as an issue raised in RC testing
was confirmed as a blocking issue. Also during RC evaluation some concerns
were raised about the contents of the source distribution. The work
resolving that got underway and is ready to commit.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16391

Thanks to all who spent time evaluating and testing.

On to the numbers…

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: 2 (+2);
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16552 Anticompaction
appears to race with Compaction - raised as a blocking issue revealed
during RC evaluation
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16524 SSL failures after
upgrade - ascertained this week as an impacting issue. Potential fix is
proposed.
RC: 16 (-4); 11 in-flight;

Top-level metrics:
Total tickets in 4.0: 1602 (-7)
Remaining tickets represent 1.a% of total scope

Created vs. resolved trended solidly positive on this interval.

Where you can help:

* Any attention on the newly ascertained blocking flaws would be appreciated
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16552
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16524

*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:
1 RC ticket in “Ready to Commit”. Possibly mischaracterized, but won’t
clarify at this hour.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1658

*Tickets stalled for a week:
6 GA tickets stalled.
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.

-- 
Adam Holmberg
e. adam.holmberg@datastax.com
w. www.datastax.com