Hmm, I thought I sent this but it was sitting in my Drafts box. Anyway, I've updated http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Cassandra2474 to flesh out the earlier proposals and editorialize a little in "Discussion Summary" sections.
I'm skeptical that splitting dicussion across Jira and the ML is a big improvement over Jira-only but I'm willing to give it a try. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@acunu.com> wrote: > There has been a discussion taking place in CASSANDRA-2474[1] > regarding the language and semantics of compound columns in CQL. > Though the issue was only opened in July, and despite extended periods > of inactivity, it is monstrously long. Additionally, the discussion > necessarily includes inline visual aids (tables, graphics, and > verbatim code snippets) that are constantly being revised, which only > compounds (pun intended) the problem. I feel as though this is not > only making the discussion less constructive, but that it may be > scaring people off, (and IMO, this issue could use to be discussed > among a larger group anyway). > > I propose two things, 1) that we move the discussion to this mailing > list, and 2) that we track the various approaches in the wiki. > > For the latter of these, I've stubbed out a page[2] that would > hopefully serve as a starting point. > > Thoughts? > > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2474 > [2]: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Cassandra2475 > > -- > Eric Evans > Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
