2/10/2020: Today's 4.0 status update: The 4.0 board can be found at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355.
The broad view: We have a total of 95 tickets open for 4.0 releases (No change from 11 days ago, though 5 are cwiki migration tests): https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12347896 Cumulative flow updated, now restricted to last 3 months: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&view=reporting&chart=cumulativeFlowDiagram&swimlane=939&swimlane=936&swimlane=931&column=1505&column=1506&column=1514&column=1509&column=1512&column=1507&days=90 What pops for me: velocity on closes look healthy, we just had new tickets open to match what we closed out: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1670 5 of those are the test epic + 4 test tracking tickets from me looking into migrating cwiki stuff to JIRA. That filter above is last 7d and it's been 11 since our last email, but the trajectory stands. It's almost entirely new flaky test failures or those testing JIRAs, so we're likely replacing larger scoped "chunky" tickets with smaller test failures, meaning we should see close-out velocity catch up and surpass creation within the next couple cycles. All healthy signs at this point in our release lifecycle (working through alphas) IMO. We closed out 16 tickets in the past 11 days ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12347782&jql=project%20%3D%20cassandra%20AND%20fixversion%20in%20(4.0%2C%204.0.0%2C%204.0-alpha%2C%204.0-beta)%20AND%20resolved%20%3E%3D%20-11d%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20assignee) giving us a rolling 4 week total of 46, up from 37. This puts our 4 week rolling change in the past 3 weeks at 26, 37, and now 46 - increasing close momentum. *Newly opened tickets* We had 9 new tickets open in the last week that were not the epic test: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12347782&jql=project%20%3D%20cassandra%20AND%20fixversion%20in%20(4.0%2C%204.0.0%2C%204.0-alpha%2C%204.0-beta)%20AND%20created%20%3E%20-11d%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20unresolved%20and%20type%20!%3D%20epic%20and%20(%22Epic%20Link%22%20!%3D%20CASSANDRA-15536%20OR%20%22Epic%20Link%22%20is%20empty) Of the unassigned, 5 are flaky tests and CASSANDRA-15549 is a pretty straightforward doc / recommendation change ticket, so all good candidates to pick up if you want to start getting more involved with the project. *LHF / Failing Tests*: We have 8 unassigned test failures that are all great candidates to pick up and get involved in: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&projectKey=CASSANDRA&quickFilter=1660&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1658 *Needs Reviewer*: 11 tickets need a reviewer. This is *up* from 7 last time, so this is growing. 3 alpha, 1 beta, and 7 RC; I'd advocate that people take a moment to help out with reviews if you have flexible cycles to burn that queue down. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&quickFilter=1659 *Available to work*: 9 alpha, 4 beta, and 14 RC tickets are available for work (no assignee): https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&view=detail&selectedIssue=CASSANDRA-15308&quickFilter=1661&quickFilter=1658 Most of these are pretty low friction to pick up and work. *Ready to Commit*: 4 tickets (down from 6) are marked ready to commit. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=355&selectedIssue=CASSANDRA-14688&quickFilter=1672&quickFilter=1661 *Testing*: I have a JIRA epic for tracking the cwiki status I put together; I emailed the dev list and got some general "Lazy Consensus ftw, do what makes you happy" style responses on it. I'll be traveling (again) this week, but I'll see if I can't migrate the rest of the wiki into JIRA so I have a final alpha of what it'll look like to get a final +1 on before marking the cwiki deprecated and we can start driving assignee / reviewer / etc through this email on the broader 4.0 testing initiatives. Epic is here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15536 As always, thanks everyone for the time and effort you're putting into this release specifically and the project in general. If you have any feedback about ways I could improve the signal / value of information in this email, please don't hesitate to let me know. My goal for this effort is to reduce friction to contribution, save everyone's time by consolidating information and visibility here, and help align us all on the project, so let me know if there's something I can do to improve any of this. Thanks again! ~Josh
