Can you tell us anything about what this means concerning an official
HBase 0.2.0 release?
Regardless of what happens, thanks for everything you and Michael have
done bringing HBase to the community.
Rick
On Jul 30, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Jim Kellerman wrote:
As of Friday August 1, when the acquisition of Powerset by Microsoft
closes, Michael Stack and I will not be able to make further
contributions to HBase until a process is developed within Microsoft
for us to do so.
We do expect such a process to be developed at this point, since
Microsoft is now a platinum sponsor of Apache.org. However, when
lawyers get involved, who knows how long it will take or if it will
really happen. Things are looking positive at this point, but now
you know as much as I do.
Stack and I will be able to commit patches contributed by other
members of the HBase community, so if there was ever an incentive
for others to contribute, this is it!
We will continue to monitor the mailing lists and the IRC channel,
but beyond that, reviewing patches and committing contributions from
others, our hands are tied.
Once the situation is resolved (one way or the other) we will will
let the community know.
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Jim Kellerman, Senior Engineer; Powerset
