[CASSANDRA-1001] Improve messaging and reduce barrier to entry post CASSANDRA-44

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 0.7 beta 1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Johan Oskarsson
• Created: 19/Apr/10 10:59
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 21/Jul/10 20:52

Description

As seen on the mailinglist and from own experience the CASSANDRA-44 changes make it slightly confusing for a first time user to get his first Cassandra instance up and running. We should reduce the risk of turning away potential users.

• Improve our messaging (README, error msg, NEWS etc).
• Make it much easier to load/create a schema after a first startup. Starting jconsole and digging around for some obscure loading method is confusing and time consuming, we should provide a simple tool to do so.