Hey Bob, 
Great to hear from you and thanks for volunteering. Between you and me, I've 
been considering forking Drill, moving it to the OWASP foundation, and 
integrating a lot of security-related stuff that either hasn't been accepted or 
I haven't submitted. I suspect this would help increase Drill's user base and 
hence get better features etc. 

What do you think?
-- C



> On May 15, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Bob Rudis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I can carve out work-time to review PRs.
> 
> -boB
> 
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:25 AM Prabhakar Bhosaale
> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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

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