Re: Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread Patrick McFadin
Nothing promotable like a shiny new release tag! On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:50 AM C. Scott Andreas wrote: > Yep, supportive of anything that has the potential to increase the number > of users evaluating a pre-release build. Alpha sounds great. > > On May 18, 2022, at 9:29 AM, David Capwell

Re: Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
+1 to a release, but should we be explicit about alphas potentially having flaky test failures? I think the release lifecycle doc is really good, but I think when we find implied behavior it's an opportunity to make it more concrete. I don't want to be dogmatic here, but flaky tests definitely

Re: Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread C. Scott Andreas
Yep, supportive of anything that has the potential to increase the number of users evaluating a pre-release build. Alpha sounds great.On May 18, 2022, at 9:29 AM, David Capwell wrote:Works for meOn May 18, 2022, at 7:36 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote:+1 from me on the grounds that I expect users to

Re: Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread David Capwell
Works for me > On May 18, 2022, at 7:36 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote: > > +1 from me on the grounds that I expect users to be more inclined to test an > alpha build of 4.1 rather than finding and pulling down a nightly. > Expectations of stability differ. > > On Wed, May 18, 2022, at 10:18 AM,

Re: Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread Josh McKenzie
+1 from me on the grounds that I expect users to be more inclined to test an alpha build of 4.1 rather than finding and pulling down a nightly. Expectations of stability differ. On Wed, May 18, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > Hi Mick, > > I do not mind having alpha1 out. It will

Re: Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
Hi Mick, I do not mind having alpha1 out. It will help me with setting up all build pipelines for our plugins / tools / libraries as now I can not build it as snapshot is not released anywhere nor I can depend on it in Maven projects, for example. So yeah, +1 from me. Regards On Wed, 18 May

Appetite for a 4.1-alpha1 ?

2022-05-18 Thread Mick Semb Wever
Our release lifecycle docsĀ¹ imply that we can release alphas despite flaky test failures, which means we can cut and vote on a 4.1-alpha1 release today. This is also on the presumption that point (2) on our Cassandra CI Process docsĀ² does not apply to pre-beta releases. Is there an appetite for