dave2wave commented on a change in pull request #14464: URL: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/14464#discussion_r814365389
########## File path: site2/website/blog/2022-02-24-apache-pulsar-community-welcomes-500th-contributor ########## @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +title: "The Apache Pulsar Community Welcomes 500th Contributor!" +date: 2022-02-24 +author: "Matteo Merli", "Karin Landers", "Alice Bi" +--- + + +Apache Pulsar is one of the fastest growing, most engaged open source projects, recognized by the [Apache Software Foundation](https://thestack.technology/top-apache-projects-in-2021-from-superset-to-nuttx/) as a Top 5 Project based on engagement in 2021. The vitality of any open source project relies on continued community growth and engagement, and this month, the Apache Pulsar community hit another major milestone: **welcoming its 500th contributor!** + +A cloud-native messaging and event streaming platform, Apache Pulsar was committed to open source in 2016, and graduated as a Top-Level Project (TLP) in September 2018. Since its inception, the project has received 10k+ Github stars, 2.7k+ forks, and 6.1k+ Slack users. + + + +The number of contributors in an open-source project is meaningful because it signals project adoption, growth, advancement, and accelerated development of the technology. This milestone is even more exciting, considering the speed at which the community is growing, adding an additional 100 contributors in under seven months, representing 8X contributor growth since becoming a top-level Apache Software Foundation project. + + + +Since the Pulsar project gained its 400th contributor and surpassed Kafka for the total number of commits in June 2021, the Pulsar community has released major product updates and ecosystem enhancements to improve developer experience and lower the barrier to adoption. Recent product feature updates include: + +## Product Updates and Ecosystem Development + +The Apache Pulsar community released versions [2.8.0](https://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2021/09/23/Apache-Pulsar-2-8-1/) in June 2021, and [2.9.0](https://pulsar.apache.org/release-notes/#281-mdash-2021-09-10-a-id281a) in December 2021, which contain a number of new benefits, including: + +1. **Enhanced support for protocol handlers** enables teams to integrate existing applications built on other technologies with Pulsar without code changes. Popular protocol handlers developed by the community including: Review comment: True, but here you are highlighting SN product ... -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
