Hi, On a personal note, I’d like to thank those in this weekend’s threads who have > tried to de-escalate tensions rather than inflame them.
I agree. Thanks. Let's try to all learn from that, please. I believe we can disagree politely and respectfully. And we must do so. We can still express anything we want to express. It's just a bit harder, it takes a bit longer this way, but it's so much more efficient to have your real message reaching people. Jeff Jirsa’s diplomacy stands out to me as particularly mature. > True, that was my opinion as well while reading the threads. I also want to take the chance to say that this applies to you as well Jonathan. IMHO, your message is just what the community needed right now. So thanks for the clarification... ... And for what you have done in the last years. As Aaron said at the Summit, you, as an individual, have changed my life, and many other, in a very good way. From my first message in the user mailing list you answered to this last message in the dev list to preserve the community, even after stepping down from the project chair. The amount, variety and quality of work you have done and the way you are behaving are inspiring for me. As has been said before, we’re all on the same team here. Now let’s get back > to making Apache Cassandra the best open source distributed database in > the world! Sounds good :-). A community is nothing but what we bring to it as individuals. Looking forward to working all together, with our disagreements, but peacefully, in the same direction, once again. C*heers, ----------------------- Alain Rodriguez - @arodream - al...@thelastpickle.com France The Last Pickle - Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com 2016-11-06 21:43 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > There’s been some conversation and some acrimony kicked up by my recent > blog post here > <http://www.datastax.com/2016/11/serving-customers-serving-the-community>. > I appreciate the conversation and regret the acrimony! > > Fundamentally I was trying to convey two complementary messages: > > > 1. > > DataStax wants to see Apache Cassandra thrive and will continue to > contribute in multiple ways to make that happen, but at the same time > 2. > > DataStax will be placing more emphasis on DSE and more engineering > effort behind it. > > > It’s unfortunate that the timing here coincides with some regrettable > actions by the Apache Board of Directors, but this change in emphasis is > primarily driven by business factors unrelated to the ASF. DataStax shares > Apache’s commitment to community-led development independent of any single > vendor. > > One friend pointed out to me that any vagueness can be interpreted as > “weasel words” and turned into alarmist conjectures as to what this really > means. I gave several specifics in the post as to how DataStax will > continue to contribute to Apache Cassandra, but maybe I can simplify > things: > > This has been going on for months. DataStax’s level of contribution moving > forward will be nearly indistinguishable from our level in October and > September. If that was no cause for alarm then, I hope it will not be > cause for alarm now that we have articulated how we are moving forward. > > To be explicit: DataStax engineers will continue to contribute code > reviews, bug fixes, and selected new features to Apache Cassandra. In a > qualitative sense then, you could almost say that nothing has changed. > > On a personal note, I’d like to thank those in this weekend’s threads who > have tried to de-escalate tensions rather than inflame them. Jeff Jirsa’s > diplomacy stands out to me as particularly mature. > > As has been said before, we’re all on the same team here. Now let’s get > back to making Apache Cassandra the best open source distributed database > in the world! > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > @spyced >
