On May 19, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Sanders King wrote:
> Hi All, > Hi Sanders, and welcome! ... snip ... > Firstly, I would like to know what motivates people to be involved > with Drizzle. Are you 'scratching an itch'? Do you just love > database programming? Are you paid to work on it? Ego-boo? > I can only answer for myself, however the answer is pretty straight forward. I was attracted to Drizzle a while back because it stood out as an ideal example of what an Open Source project should be. The drizzle core developers are completely transparent. All decisions/commentary/questions happen in the open either on the drizzle-discuss mailing list or in #drizzle (IRC). One of the first things I noticed was that the key people involved in the project were not only happy to welcome new-comers, but they are all very open to answering questions and engaging in conversation. This really stands out to me as, from experience, a lot of other dev teams can come off as too busy to answer uninteresting questions or tend to the new-comers as they get their bearings. I was also really interested in getting involved with the project based on it's clear goals of coding for today's hardware and ripping out anything that wasn't done right or was legacy or not worth keeping. > Secondly, I would like to know which companies are commercially > invested in Drizzle. Who employs you to work on Drizzle? I'm not sure about other companies, however Rackspace (http://rackspace.com) recently created a Drizzle Team under our Cloud division (http://rackspacecloud.com), and hired a number of Drizzle developers to work specifically on Drizzle including Eric Day, Monty Taylor, Jay Pipes, Stewart Smith, Lee Bieber, and most recently Patrick Crews. I've also been employed by Rackspace (going on 6 years), but not on the Drizzle Team (yet! :). That said my position and work is deeply rooted in a number of Open Source projects (Fedora/EPEL/IUS) and therefore I am afforded the ability to dedicate time to Drizzle when anything comes up that I am able to contribute to. > > And thirdly, I would like to know who wears what hats. Who works on, > or maybe 'owns', which parts of the code? Who is the primary contact > for something in the Drizzle project? > So if you feel that you fulfil a particular role, please tell me. > I started contributing to drizzle a few months ago to fill the need for packaging for RPM based linux distros. You can find an 'rpm' branch in some of the drizzle projects in Launchpad (pkg-drizzle, pkg-libdrizzle, drizzle-interface, boots). I've started maintaining an unofficial yum repo for Fedora/RHEL packages and am currently working towards getting those packages added to Fedora/EPEL for Drizzle and related projects. Currently libdrizzle and python-drizzle have been approved for Fedora 12+ and EPEL 5+, and in the future will be adding boots, php-pecl-drizzle, and when ready drizzle itself. http://drizzle.org/wiki/RPMInstallation --- derks _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
