I agree "we" the community should be careful about drawing conclusions.
For the long term health and vitality of Cassandra, I feel more contributors should be invited to become committers. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jim Ancona <j...@anconafamily.com> wrote: > I took a look at the Ohloh stats here: > https://www.ohloh.net/p/cassandra/contributors/summary > > Note that committers are not the same as contributors. Dozens of people > contribute patches that are committed to the codebase without being > committers. > > Over the last year, the top four contributors (Jonathan Ellis, Sylvain > Lebresne, Brandon Williams and Aleksey Yeschenko) were all Datastax > employees. Together they were responsible for 70% of the commits over that > time period. FWIW, the numbers for the last 30 days show those same top > four accounting for 52%. > > I agree with Dave that we should be careful about what conclusions we draw > from this kind of data. > > Jim > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jack Krupansky > <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > >> I would note that the original question was about “developers”, not >> “committers” per se. I sort of assumed that the question implied the >> latter, but that’s not necessarily true. One can “develop” and optionally >> “contribute” code without being a committer, per se. There are probably >> plenty of users of Cassandra out there who do their own enhancement of >> Cassandra and don’t necessarily want or have the energy to contribute back >> their enhancements, or intend to and haven’t gotten around to it yet. And >> there are also “contributors” who have “developed” and “contributed” >> patches (ANYBODY can do that, not just “committers”) but are not officially >> anointed as “committers”. >> >> So, who knows how many contributors or “developers” are out there beyond >> the known committers. The important thing is that Cassandra is open source >> and licensed so that any enterprise can use it and readily and freely debug >> and enhance it without any sort of mandatory requirement that they be >> completely dependent on some particular vendor. >> >> There’s actually a wiki detailing some of the other vendors, beyond >> DataStax, who provide consulting (which may include 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.) >> >> -- Jack Krupansky >> >> *From:* Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> >> *Sent:* Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:48 AM >> *To:* user@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 really 'wants' datastax >> employees to be cassandra committers, is really misleading. >> >> Why wouldn't a company want to hire people who have shown a desire and >> aptitude to work on products that they care about? It's just rational. And >> damn genius, actually. >> >> I'm sure they'd be happy to have an influx of non-datastax committers. >> patches welcome. >> >> dave >> >> >> On 05/17/2014 08:28 AM, Peter Lin wrote: >> >> >> if you look at the new committers since 2012 they are mostly datastax >> >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: >> >>> so 30%… according to that data. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Michael Shuler >>> <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, >>>> Michael >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com >>> Location: *San Francisco, CA* >>> Skype: *burtonator* >>> blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com >>> … or check out my Google+ >>> profile<https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> >>> <http://spinn3r.com> >>> War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations >>> are people. >>> >> >> >> >> >
