I can carve out work-time to review PRs. -boB
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:25 AM Prabhakar Bhosaale <bhosale....@gmail.com> wrote: > > HI Charles, > I have never contributed to any open source community before this. Also I > am not expert on JAVA but willing to contribute for sure. Please let me > know in what capacity i can be helpful here. > > Also, I would like to know if there any efforts going on to identify > primary support for Apache drill and what is its future in case there is no > primary supporter? My organization is planning to build some tools using > drill and this news will definitely impact the same. thx > > Regards > Prabhakar > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:18 PM Charles Givre <cgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear Drill Users, > > I hope everyone weathering the COVID storm and staying safe. > > > > As you may or may not be aware, I found out this week that MapR's > > successor, HPE has for all intents and purposes ended its support for > > Drill. Whilst they will be contributing minimal bug fixes, they will not > > be adding any new functionality or new features. This leaves the open > > source Drill without a primary backer. Under the Apache rules, to commit > > code to the code base it must be reviewed and voted upon. While we have > > committers, we do not currently have enough code reviewers to review new > > commits. > > > > My question to you as a Drill user is whether or not Drill is offering > > value to you and your organization. If it is, and you would like to see > > Drill development continue, then we need additional volunteers to step up > > and review pull requests. > > > > If you're interested in reviewing code for Drill, please let me know. > > > > Thank you for your continued support and stay safe! > > -- Charles
