Hi Silas, Glad to hear from you! Brad Schoening and I are the mentors of this CEP-59 project. Let's connect on Slack and discuss your proposal!
Sincerely, Jane On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 3:49 AM Brandon Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I've sent an invite to your address. > > Kind Regards, > Brandon > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 5:42 AM Silas Maughan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi Shailaja, > > > > Thank you for the warm welcome! I found the community page, would it be > possible for you to please send me a guest ASF Slack invite to > [email protected]? > > > > Thanks, > > Silas > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM Shailaja Koppu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Silas, > >> > >> Welcome to the Apache Cassandra community. It’s great to hear from you, > and we really appreciate the initiative you have shown. I’m not sure we > have a formal list of mentors published anywhere. I’d recommend joining the > ASF Slack workspace if you haven’t already—the Cassandra onboarding guide > has the instructions. Once there, feel free to reach out directly to the > CEP authors and the PMC members to help you connect to mentors in the > relevant areas of the codebase. > >> > >> Glad to have you here, and looking forward to your contributions! > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Shailaja > >> > >> > >> On Mar 30, 2026, at 11:50 PM, Silas Maughan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am Silas Maughan, a Software Engineering BSc student at CODE > University of Applied Science in Berlin. For the past year and a half I > worked as a Computer Engineer at CERN, where I built and operated a > production Apache Ozone and Hadoop storage cluster (~100 TB) supporting the > High-Luminosity LHC. During that time I evaluated Apache Cassandra for > certain storage workloads, developed novel undocumented integrations for > Ozone, and have submitted an abstract to Community over Code this October > to share these learnings with the Apache community. > >> > >> I have submitted a GSoC 2026 proposal for CASSANDRA-21191 (CEP-59 > in-band connection draining). I have read CEP-59 in full and studied the > transport layer and drain path in StorageService. I would be grateful to > connect with the listed mentors and welcome any feedback on my proposal. > >> > >> Apologies for the late contact! My research contract at CERN concluded > last week and my priority was delivering a quality wrap-up of my work for > Community over Code. > >> > >> GitHub: github.com/silvanias > >> Proposal: submitted via the GSoC portal > >> > >> > >> Best, Silas > >> > >> >
