On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 07:53 -0700, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 wrote: > 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.
Facebook and Apache have diverged (technically we're the fork). To the best of my knowledge, this has always been the case. > 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? I can't speak for Digg and Twitter, but as I understand it, that is the Plan (both have indicated as much publically). > While most recent commits appear to come from Eric Evans and Jonathan > Ellis, the committers<http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers> > list for Cassandra does include, among many others, Facebook, Twitter, > and Digg. Work is underway to merge Digg's work on vector clocks, and Twitter has done recent work on Hadoop support (among other things). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
