Agreed here - combining effort and making things pluggable seems like a good solution
-- Jeff Jirsa On Aug 28, 2018, at 11:44 PM, Vinay Chella <vche...@netflix.com.INVALID> wrote: >> I haven’t settled on a position yet (will have more time think about > things after the 9/1 freeze), but I wanted to point out that the argument > that something new should be written because an existing project has tech > debt, and we'll do it the right way this time, is a pretty common software > engineering mistake. The thing you’re replacing usually needs to have some > really serious problems to make it worth replacing. > > Agreed, Yes, I don’t think we should write everything from the scratch, but > carry forwarding tech debt (if any) and design decisions which makes new > features in future difficult to develop is something that we need to > consider. I second Dinesh’s thought on taking the best parts from available > projects to move forward with the right solution which works great and > easily pluggable. > > - > Vinay Chella > > >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:03 PM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> >>> the argument that something new should be written because an existing >> project has tech debt, and we'll do it the right way this time, is a pretty >> common software engineering mistake. The thing you’re replacing usually >> needs to have some really serious problems to make it worth replacing. >> >> >> Thanks for writing this Blake. I'm no fan of writing from scratch. Working >> with other people's code is the joy of open-source, imho. >> >> Reaper is not a big project. None of its java files are large or >> complicated. >> This is not the C* codebase we're talking about. >> >> It comes with strict code style in place (which the build enforces), unit >> and integration tests. The tech debt that I think of first is removing >> stuff that we would no longer want to support if it were inside the >> Cassandra project. A number of recent refactorings have proved it's an >> easy codebase to work with. >> >> It's also worth noting that Cassandra-4.x adoption is still some away, in >> which time Reaper will only continue to grow and gain users. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
