> NiFi has grown considerably in user base, diversity of represented contributor interests (companies)
My employer is a large consulting firm, and that very much matches our experience. I think if any of our clients asked, we'd tell them to focus on risk mitigation with CDH vs HDP. On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:50 PM Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter > > The scenario you outline is one that is possible for any community at > any time and it is what makes Apache projects unique from just 'open > source' code put on a website. Apache projects are governed by the > policies and processes of the Apache Software Foundation and are > tasked with demonstrating and following the Apache Way. These things > exist to help guide communities to operate in a survivable and > inclusive manner. > > NiFi has grown considerably in user base, diversity of represented > contributor interests (companies), and in valuable high-impact > features. I have no reason to believe that is changing. > > Now, lets focus on why you need 32GB+ heaps :) > > Thanks > Joe > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:56 PM Peter Wicks (pwicks) <pwi...@micron.com> > wrote: > > > > Normally, I wouldn’t ask a question like this on the NiFi Dev group. But > I did a census and out of the top 10 committers to NiFi in the last year, 8 > definitely work for Hortonworks (couldn’t figure out where MikeThomsen > works). In the subsequent top 10 committers, there are at least four more > working for Hortonworks (mosermw, thenatog, and markobean I couldn’t figure > out). > > > > I love that Hortonworks has put so much people power into NiFi, no other > company has more than a single developer contributing code in large > quantity (that I can find, large quantity being top 20 contributors list > for last year). But I do worry about what would happen to the whole project > if, assuming the merger goes through, Cloudera decided a change of > direction was in order, or something to that affect, and the whole project > was affected negatively. > > > > Thoughts from the community (and if you aren’t legally allowed to > represent your company… probably best not to respond more than your allowed > )? > > > > --Peter >
