[kea-dev] kea apache cassandra/datastax cassandra

[Razvan Becheriu]

Hi,

Have you been able to look over the pull request? Do you have access to the
files/changes?
I just want to make sure I did all the steps necessary for the pull-request.

Thanks,
Razvan

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Razvan Becheriu <
razvan.becheriu at qualitance.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've updated the kea-admin script with the commands needed to initialize
> the database and added necessary scripts to call the cqlsh (cassandra
> database client).
>
> I've attached to this file the necessary documentation needed to build the
> datastax cpp driver and to build KEA with cassandra backend.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Tomek Mrugalski <tomasz at isc.org> wrote:
>
>> On 19.05.2016 10:58, Razvan Becheriu wrote:
>> > I work for Qualitance in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom.
>> > I have been working on improving the KEA server by adding support for
>> > apache cassandra/datastax cassandra.
>> I've been hearing about this Cassandra work for a while. It's exciting
>> to finally see the code.
>> > From my understanding, the new source files will be commited with
>> > "Apache License".
>> Yes. Please make sure you put the appropriate license note at the top of
>> each new file you added. I presume most of the new code comes in new
>> files. Also, make sure you update COPYING file. Adding a new section
>> there explaining that the Cassandra backend is distributed under Apache
>> license should do the trick. Another file to modify is AUTHORS. ISC
>> tries to keep track of all contributions that we received, but we're
>> flexible with it. We can put that whatever the contributor wants to -
>> name and company, just the name, only company, even anonymous is ok.
>>
>> >
>> > I am ready to commit the changes to a separate branch (for code
>> > review). The source files have been updated to latest (main branch)
>> > version.
>> Great! Can you submit a pull request on github? I'm sure you know how to
>> do it, but in case you haven't used it before, here's
>> https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/. This seems to be
>> the best way forward, as we would be able to tweak the code during the
>> review.
>>
>> Once I get the pull request, I'll start reviewing it.
>>
>> I was told that this change also has some documentation. It would be
>> great if you could include it. I must admit I have never set up
>> Cassandra before, but I presume there will be some installation required
>> and then some form of database initalization, similar to SQL schema.
>> Will this be a part of the patch? If not, can you explain how to set up
>> a test environment?
>>
>> > One thing to mention is that not all unit tests have been written for
>> > the cassandra backend.
>> That's unfortunate, but we can live with it. We always try to ask for
>> unit tests, but I still haven't seen a patch with full unit tests suite
>> :) Luckily the unit tests framework for the lease manager are structured
>> in a way that it's easy to extend to additional backends.
>> Once I see the code and understand it a bit, I'll write missing tests
>> for it.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Tomek
>>
>>
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