Big bang or not, there are existing PRs targeting some fixes for docs
(1). I happen to label these PRs like that and just move on. I was
planning to take a holistic look at all of them closer to the release
of 6.0 we are and do it in one merge and be done with it. I prefer to
just accumulate the PRs over time and do it all in bulk.

I would appreciate it a lot if we deal with these PRs somehow at this
point. I think the authors of these PRs deserve their patches to be
looked at, out of respect for their time and effort. If we do a big
bang then it will be way more difficult to retrofit their patches (or
they will become flat out obsolete / irrelevant if the content
changes). I think it would be better if we do the refactorisation with
their fixes already in so we do not miss them.

(1) https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Adocs

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM David Capwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > For the purpose of producing my own documentation to use as a user, I took 
> > the antlr grammar for Accord CQL and used a model to generate a few dozen 
> > examples of what's possible and not possible in the syntax. I'd love for 
> > something like this to be included in the Accord section.
>
>
> PR open from before I went on leave. Believe all feedback has been addressed 
> just waiting for approval.  Know docs don’t need 2 reviews, just want to make 
> sure the docs are good for users.
>
> PR is very example focused, shows limitations and work around!
>
> As with the giant over hall.  I’m good with the approach.  Patric and I were 
> talking about the doc build process when I first sent out the accord PR, my 
> hope is the output of this effort makes it easier to contribute / validate 
> than current trunk
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 3, 2026, at 2:03 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 
> >>
> >> The phasing in my mind was start with the content and then phase 2, core 
> >> build and deployment changes. For the users of Cassandra, my initial big 
> >> lift was giving them first class docs(and are they?)
> >>
> >> The items you mentioned are when I start moving things over to trunk, and 
> >> yes, there will be a lot of things to get th…
> >
> >
> >
> > My concern here is that you're putting the cart before the horse – you 
> > can't commit any of the new docs until you can build them the way they get 
> > built for the website.  So, I guess,  you have to be extra clear with folk 
> > that phase 1 is only content and layout review, and that those things may 
> > change and need to be reviewed again after phase 2. when the build is 
> > fixed/adapted.  Take for example Scott's mention about rendering latex, 
> > that's moot because it can and will change again.
> >
> > If phase 1 is what you need as the driving force for motivation and to 
> > bring in collaboration, that's fine by me, just so long as everyone 
> > understands the above.
> >

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