Marko, I agree with your assertion that the project needs innovation and talented contributors to continue to thrive. It needs that as much as it needs stability and reliability for the users who depend on it today. Obviously, things can't quite be as they were, but perhaps they can become something new.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 6:34 PM Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys/gals, > > Looks like it’s just been Stephen nick-nacking away again as it’s been the > last few years. Given the recent big turnover in management, I was hoping > to eat my own words and see some performance out of Josh, but unfortunately > as given the last 15+ years, 'talk and walk’ (which is even worse than > ‘commit and split’). Given that Amazon Neptune is including openCypher in > their distribution and with Neo4j just took in a whomping $300+ million in > a Series <batman symbol>, seems Apache TinkerPop will be falling to the > wayside unless some real innovation happens. > > As such, perhaps I could offer a helping hand given my intimate knowledge > of the codebase and my master of the theory and history of graph computing > that I helped formulate over the last 15 years. With that said, I > completely understand if y’all need to hold to the narrative that I’m a > “Nazi racist” and thus, unworthy of contributing (after all, the "Nazi > code" I wrote over a decade has proven how detrimental ‘racism’ has been to > the integrity of the software). However, on the other hand, if y’all have > moved past such trivial concepts of ‘good and evil’, perhaps we can get > TinkerPop movin' again. > > Take care mein comrades, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com <http://markorodriguez.com/> > > >
