Peter The scenario you outline is one that is possible for any community at any time and it is what makes Apache projects unique from just 'open source' code put on a website. Apache projects are governed by the policies and processes of the Apache Software Foundation and are tasked with demonstrating and following the Apache Way. These things exist to help guide communities to operate in a survivable and inclusive manner.
NiFi has grown considerably in user base, diversity of represented contributor interests (companies), and in valuable high-impact features. I have no reason to believe that is changing. Now, lets focus on why you need 32GB+ heaps :) Thanks Joe On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:56 PM Peter Wicks (pwicks) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Normally, I wouldn’t ask a question like this on the NiFi Dev group. But I > did a census and out of the top 10 committers to NiFi in the last year, 8 > definitely work for Hortonworks (couldn’t figure out where MikeThomsen > works). In the subsequent top 10 committers, there are at least four more > working for Hortonworks (mosermw, thenatog, and markobean I couldn’t figure > out). > > I love that Hortonworks has put so much people power into NiFi, no other > company has more than a single developer contributing code in large quantity > (that I can find, large quantity being top 20 contributors list for last > year). But I do worry about what would happen to the whole project if, > assuming the merger goes through, Cloudera decided a change of direction was > in order, or something to that affect, and the whole project was affected > negatively. > > Thoughts from the community (and if you aren’t legally allowed to represent > your company… probably best not to respond more than your allowed )? > > --Peter
