Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-29 Thread Aaron Morton
> The Cassandra Summit Bootcamp, Sep 12-13, immediately following the Summit, > might be interesting for potential contributors. I’ll be there to help people get started. Looking forward to it. While DS are the biggest contributor in time and patches, there are several other well known people an

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread Michael Shuler
On 05/23/2014 01:23 PM, Peter Lin wrote: A separate but important consideration is long term health of a project. Many apache projects face this issue. When a project doesn't continually grow the contributors and committers, the project runs into issues in the long term. All open source projects

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread Peter Lin
I think we can all agree that DataStax has been a positive for Cassandra. There's no point arguing that in my mind. A separate but important consideration is long term health of a project. Many apache projects face this issue. When a project doesn't continually grow the contributors and committers

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread Redmumba
Another thing to keep in mind--even core pieces like the Linux kernel are dominated by corporations. Less than 20% of contributions last year were made by non-corporate sponsored contributors. Obviously, this is a bit different, but many parts of the open source world depend on upstream contribut

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread David Daeschler
Datastax have also gone far out of their way to support companies using Cassandra regardless of if it happens to be the DSE or not. We are not part of any paid agreement with the company and I had a Datastax employee sending me texts late on a weekend to help me through an issue I was having with m

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread Robert Coli
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Kevin Burton wrote: > Perhaps because the developers are working on DSE :-P > FWIW, and I am not necessarily known for being the biggest defender of Datastax and the relationship of their commercial interests to the architectural direction of Cassandra... ... D

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread Peter Lin
e actual Cassandra >> enhancement in some cases) and support for Cassandra: >> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ThirdPartySupport >> >> (For disclosure, I am a part-time contractor for DataStax, but now on the >> sales side, although by background is as a developer.) &

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-23 Thread Jim Ancona
t; (For disclosure, I am a part-time contractor for DataStax, but now on the > sales side, although by background is as a developer.) > > -- Jack Krupansky > > *From:* Dave Brosius > *Sent:* Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:48 AM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-17 Thread Jack Krupansky
@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? The question assumes that it's likely that datastax employees become committers. Actually, it's more likely that committers become datastax employees. So this underlying tone that datastax only rea

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-17 Thread Dave Brosius
Shuler mailto:mich...@pbandjelly.org>> wrote: On 05/14/2014 03:39 PM, Kevin Burton wrote: I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers -- Kind regards,

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-17 Thread Peter Lin
t;> >>> I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? >>> >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Michael >> > > > > -- > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com >

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Kevin Burton
so 30%… according to that data. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 05/14/2014 03:39 PM, Kevin Burton wrote: > >> I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? >> > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers >

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Colin
itters > > -- Jack Krupansky > > From: Kevin Burton > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:39 PM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? > > I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Chris Lohfink
There does seem to be some effort trying to encourage others - DataStax had some talks explaining how to contribute. This year there is even a extra bootcamp http://learn.datastax.com/CassandraSummitBootcampApplication.html On May 16, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Peter Lin wrote: > > perhaps the commi

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Jack Krupansky
You can always check the project committer wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers -- Jack Krupansky From: Kevin Burton Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:39 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? I'm curious what

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Kevin Burton
me when you have a product.)) > > > > (((* Yes, Netflix is open sourcing a lot of Cassandra stuff, but I don’t > think they’re planning to pivot.))) > > > > /Janne > > > > On 14 May 2014, at 23:39, Kevin Burton wrote: > > > >> I'm curious what %

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Janne Jalkanen
Cassandra, pitch me when you have a product.)) (((* Yes, Netflix is open sourcing a lot of Cassandra stuff, but I don’t think they’re planning to pivot.))) /Janne On 14 May 2014, at 23:39, Kevin Burton wrote: > I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? > &

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Michael Shuler
On 05/14/2014 03:39 PM, Kevin Burton wrote: I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers -- Kind regards, Michael

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Jeremy Hanna
nne > > On 14 May 2014, at 23:39, Kevin Burton wrote: > >> I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? >> >> … vs other companies. >> >> When MySQL was acquired by Oracle this became a big issue because even >> though yo

Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-16 Thread Peter Lin
perhaps the committers should invite other developers that have shown an interest in contributing to Cassandra. the rate of adding new non-Datastax committers "appears" to be low the last 2 years. I have no data to support it, it's just a feeling based personal observations the last 3 years.

What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

2014-05-15 Thread Kevin Burton
I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax? … vs other companies. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle this became a big issue because even though you can't really buy an Open Source project, you can acquire all the developers and essentially do the same thing. I