There does seem to be some effort trying to encourage others - DataStax had some talks explaining how to contribute. This year there is even a extra bootcamp http://learn.datastax.com/CassandraSummitBootcampApplication.html
On May 16, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Peter Lin <wool...@gmail.com> wrote: > > perhaps the committers should invite other developers that have shown an > interest in contributing to Cassandra. > > the rate of adding new non-Datastax committers "appears" to be low the last 2 > years. I have no data to support it, it's just a feeling based personal > observations the last 3 years.