If you're interested: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1072 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-580
-Kelvin On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Chris Goffinet <c...@chrisgoffinet.com> wrote: > Digg is not forking Cassandra. We use 0.6 for production, with a few > in-house patches (related to our infrastructure). The biggest difference > with our branch and apache 0.6 branch is we have the work Kelvin and Twitter > has done in regards to Vector Clocks + Distributed Counters. This will never > go into 0.6, but should hit 0.7 hopefully soon. We will start to move to 0.7 > once it gets more stable. > -Chris > On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 wrote: > > On yesterday’s “This Week in Tech” (TWiT) podcast with Leo Laporte > (Wiki:http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/TWiT_254), Kevin Rose of Digg fame was a > guest. He gave a public preview of the new Digg 4; it looks very nice and > should be released in the next month or two. He also mentioned that Digg 4 > is using Cassandra and that it is an Apache Open Source project. He > mentioned Twitter and how the Twitter and Digg engineers have been working > closely on Cassandra related issues. There was a passing reference to Digg > also working with Facebook engineers, but I could be wrong on that point. > > On a related but separate note: While I am fairly new to Cassandra and have > only been following the mailing lists for a few months, the conversation > with Kevin Rose on TWiT made me curious if the versions of Cassandra that > Digg, Twitter, and Facebook are using may end up being forks of the Apache > project or old versions. As the Apache Cassandra project moves forward with > new features, are these large and very public installations of Cassandra > going to be able to continue contributing patches and features and/or accept > patches and features from the Apache project? While most recent commits > appear to come from Eric Evans and Jonathan Ellis, the committers list for > Cassandra does include, among many others, Facebook, Twitter, and Digg. > > My apology if anyone feels this is an inappropriate post to this list. > > Todd > > > > > >
