While the DataStax documentation could supplement the Apache Cassandra documentation, DataStax is a commercial product based on open source Apache Cassandra with enhancements made to the open source Cassandra. Moreover, DataStax documentation requires to be maintained and updated and as it is the documentation has not been updated to version 4.0. thanks,Deepak On Friday, April 24, 2020, 03:11:26 p.m. UTC, Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: All,
A few of us have the opportunity to offer a large portion of documentation to the apache foundation and specifically the Apache Cassandra project as well as dedicate a good portion of time to maintaining this going forward. For those of you familiar, this is the DataStax sponsored / authored Cassandra documentation people often refer to in the community. Links can be found here <https://docs.datastax.com/en/landing_page/doc/landing_page/cassandra.html>. I've spoken with some of the doc writers and there's going to be significant work involved to go from the doc writing system these are authored in to Sphinx, or some other doc authoring system if we as a project decide to switch things. I know Jon Haddad has some opinions here and I think that'd be a great conversation to have on this thread for those interested. A couple of people in the near future are going to have the opportunity to continue working on these docs full-time in the in-tree docs, so maintenance going forward should represent little disruption to the project's workings day-to-day. Looking for feedback on: 1. Are there any questions or concerns about this donation? 2. Any thoughts on documentation system to use long-term, since a donation of this size would be a reasonable time to consider switching to something more preferable (not advocating for the system these current docs are in to be clear - poking Haddad to speak up since he has a strong PoV here ;) ) 3. What are next steps? I'm genuinely excited about this; here's to hoping everyone else is too! ~Josh
