I am interested in understanding the history behind the (archived) Cassandra snap (snapcrafters/cassandra).
Why was it archived? Any pointers to threads/bugs that I could go through to understand what happened to it (and if it would be possibly to pick it up from where it stopped) would be much appreciated!
If memory serves, we archived it because it didn’t work. I vaguely recall Evan worked on it initially, but it was very much in the early days of snapcraft, and didn’t get a lot of love. If someone wanted to maintain it then we could un-archive it and re-publish a new version.
I maintained a cassandra part in the edgexfoundry snap for a while, but we had lots of problems with folks trying to build the snap behind corporate proxies at the time, so we switched to just downloading the pre-built tarballs and using those in the snap instead, and then eventually we actually switched to postgresql when system-usernames was supported inside snaps.
I will perform some final adjustments to that snap so we can proceed to re-publish those. Since my final goal with this snap is to embed it into a new Cassandra OCI image (Cassandra snap and OCI image status - Server - Ubuntu Community Hub) , we would like to maintain the repository under the server team launchpad namespace if this is not a problem