Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-08-18 Thread Joshua McKenzie
t; > to the speed with which we can evolve it's form and function. > > > > > > Strongly agreed. > > > > > > > Utopia (and following section) > > > > > > Some nods to great potential refactors

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-16 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> for > > 4.0 and landed on something like "Users of Apache Cassandra can > preflight > > their 4.0 upgrade by runing $tool to clone, upgrade, and compare > their > > clusters, ensuring that the upgrade will complete smoothly and > correctly." > >

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-15 Thread Joshua McKenzie
reflight > > their 4.0 upgrade by runing $tool to clone, upgrade, and compare > their > > clusters, ensuring that the upgrade will complete smoothly and > correctly." > > > > > The less friction and less investment we can require from ecosystem > >

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-15 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
> > I like the document and there's a lot that has me nodding. Toward the > opening statement on "empirical evidence to quantify relative stability," > I'd love to revisit discussion on quantifying attributes like these here: > https://cwiki.apa

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-15 Thread Joshua McKenzie
desired behavior. > > +1 > > –– > > I like the document and there's a lot that has me nodding. Toward the > opening statement on "empirical evidence to quantify relative stability," > I'd love to revisit discussion on quantifying attributes like these here:

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-14 Thread Scott Andreas
____ From: David Capwell Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 6:23 PM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra I am also not fully clear on the motives, but welcome anything which helps bring in better and more robust t

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-14 Thread David Capwell
I am also not fully clear on the motives, but welcome anything which helps bring in better and more robust testing; thanks for starting this. Since I can not comment in the doc I have to copy/paste and put here... =( Reality > ... > investing in improving our smoke and integration testing as much

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-14 Thread Joshua McKenzie
The purpose is purely to signal a point of view on the state of testing in the codebase, some shortcomings of the architecture, and what a few of us are doing and further planning to do about it. Kind of a "prompt discussion if anyone has a wild allergic reaction to it, or encourage collaboration i

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-14 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
It does raise the bar to critiquing the document though, but perhaps that's also a feature. Perhaps we can first discuss the purpose of the document? It seems to be a mix of mission statement for the project, as well as your own near term roadmap? Should we interpret it only as an advertisemen

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-13 Thread Joshua McKenzie
> > Can you please allow comments on the doc so we can leave feedback. > > Doc is view only; figured we could keep this to the ML. > That's a feature, not a bug. Happy to chat here or on slack w/anyone. This is a complex topic so long-form or high bandwidth communication is a better fit than gdo

Re: [DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-13 Thread sankalp kohli
Can you please allow comments on the doc so we can leave feedback. On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:16 PM Joshua McKenzie wrote: > Link: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ktuBWpD2NLurB9PUvmbwGgrXsgnyU58koOseZAfaFBQ/edit# > > > Myself and a few other contributors are working with this point of vie

[DISCUSS] A point of view on Testing Cassandra

2020-07-13 Thread Joshua McKenzie
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ktuBWpD2NLurB9PUvmbwGgrXsgnyU58koOseZAfaFBQ/edit# Myself and a few other contributors are working with this point of view as our frame of where we're going to work on improving testing on the project. I figured it might be useful to foster collaboration m