Devastating news. R.I.P Brad. Thanks, Roman.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 3:29 PM Jay Vyas <jayunit100.apa...@gmail.com> 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”. > > >
