Hi, I appreciate the work that this community have put into Drill. I am using it regularly and promoting it's use. I can help with testing and documentation.
Regards, Herman Tan On Sun, 17 May 2020, 9:56 pm Charles Givre, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
