R.I.P. It's indeed a great moment back then. Thanks for the contribution.
Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> 於 2019年11月3日 週日 06:44 寫道： > Amen, rest in peace, buddy! > > On 11/3/19 1:29 AM, Jay Vyas wrote: > > Hi bigtop. This is a somewhat sad email to send, but Brad was a great > guy and a lot of fun, and I’m sure he’s smiling down on us now. > > > > About 6 Years ago I begin working at red hat on gluster and Hadoop > integration with the bigdata team, and along with Brad Childs, focused on > making GlusterFS a first class citizen in the Hadoop ecosystem. > > > > One of the unsung hero’s of BigTop was Brad: he maintained the core > functionality of gluster Hadoop such that I could focus on the Hadoop > ecosystem interop, and as he added functionality to the GlusterFS > connector, I was able to work more and more on the smoke test and > automation frameworks over time. Thus in many ways I owe a lot of the > friends and progress we’ve made in BigTop to Brad. > > > > Brad also helped me to test initial versions of the BigTop vagrant > recipes and we went on to use them for development testing at red hat for > some time, and he supported our contributions to BigTop politically at red > hat as well (I’m sure you all know it’s important to get corporate sponsors > for open source work). So he really was a great enabler for this project. > > > > Brad was also the lead on the storage commitee at kubernetes, working > with humain Chen and others to make scalable storage an option on > kubernetes. > > > > I wanted to just take a moment to let you all know that he passed away > this last weekend, as we were all shocked to here. > > > > I hope you all can take a brief moment to appreciate His lasting impact > on the BigTop project, Hadoop interoperability, and on the ASF. > > > > There are many great engineers in the supporting cast for the open > source work we do here and if you know anyone who has helped you or enabled > you to grow your career here at the ASF, now is a great time to let them > know. > > > > Thanks brad, rest well buddy. > > > > Btw: A funny quote from Brad to end this email: when we were at Hadoop > world in 2015, after the bigdata boom “I thought this would be a big > party... but it feels more like a wake”. > > > > > > >
