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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:03:47 -0600
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Subject: Re: questions about cassandra-1072/1546
From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
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You are right, the end is in sight for 1072 to be committed to trunk.

It won't be documented for end-users or committed to 0.7 branch until
we fix the drawbacks elaborated on the ticket, because that fixing
won't be backwards-compatible.  And at that point we'll probably be
close to the next major release so it may not make sense to backport
at all.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hawthorne <dhawth@3crowd.com> wrote:
> Can we get an update? =A0After reading through the comments on 1072, it l=
ooks like this is getting close to finished, but it's hard for someone not =
knee-deep in the project to tell. =A0I'm primarily interested in the timeli=
ne you foresee for getting the increment support into trunk for 0.7, and so=
me documentation around how counters will be supported from the user's pers=
pective - chiefly what a Column and SuperColumn will look like with counter=
s and what the thrift API will be. =A0Some documentation about the remainin=
g issues and concerns we should be aware of when using counters would be go=
od, too, since it looks like there were some in the comments. =A0Again, as =
someone not knee-deep in the project, it's hard to tell how severe they are=
 or how or when they would apply in general use.


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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com