Agreed. If we release it, we can’t remove it after. Option 2 is off the table.
— Jon Haddad Rustyrazorblade Consulting rustyrazorblade.com On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 7:13 PM Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > If we have a public-facing API that we’re contemplating releasing to the > public, and we don’t think it’s needed, we should remove it before it’s > launched and we’re stuck with it forever. > > > > > On Jun 20, 2024, at 9:55 AM, Jeremiah Jordan <jerem...@datastax.com> > wrote: > > +1 from me for 1, just remove it now. > I think this case is different from CASSANDRA-19556/CASSANDRA-17425. The > new guardrail from 19556 which would deprecate the 17425 has not been > committed yet. In the case of MAXWRITETIME the replacement is already in > the code, we just didn’t remove MAXWRITETIME yet. > > Jeremiah Jordan > e. jerem...@datastax.com > w. www.datastax.com > > > > On Jun 20, 2024 at 11:46:08 AM, Štefan Miklošovič <smikloso...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> List, >> >> we need your opinions about CASSANDRA-18078. >> >> That ticket is about the removal of MAXWRITETIME function which was added >> in CASSANDRA-17425 and firstly introduced in 5.0-alpha1. >> >> This function was identified to be redundant in favor of CASSANDRA-8877 >> and CASSANDRA-18060. >> >> The idea of the removal was welcomed and the patch was prepared doing so >> but it was never delivered and the question what to do with it, in >> connection with 5.0.0, still remains. >> >> The options are: >> >> 1) since 18078 was never released in GA, there is still time to remove it. >> 2) it is too late for the removal hence we would keep it in 5.0.0 and we >> would deprecate it in 5.0.1 and remove it in trunk. >> >> It is worth to say that there is a precedent in 2), in CASSANDRA-17495, >> where it was the very same scenario. A guardrail was introduced in alpha1. >> We decided to release and deprecate in 5.0.1 and remove in trunk. The same >> might be applied here, however we would like to have it confirmed if this >> is indeed the case or we prefer to just go with 1) and be done with it. >> >> Regards >> > >