Thanks Mickael, Look forward to hearing back from you.
Krit Petty ________________________________ From: Mickael Maison <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2026 2:24 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Krit Petty <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Donation of Cruise Control to Open Source Hi Krit, Just a quick response to ack we've received your email, and this is the right place to get in touch with the Kafka project. We're currently discussing it. We will get back to you shortly. Thanks, Mickael On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM Krit Petty via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > We here at LinkedIn are on our journey to move to Northguard and as such our > participation with Apache Kafka has lessened over the years. Despite not > actively contributing to Kafka anymore, we have developed and maintained > Kafka Cruise Control and made it available to the community which has gained > wide adoption across the users of Kafka. > > As we move further towards full Northguard adoption and our Kafka footprint > shrinks, we also have made less investment in the Cruise Control project as > well. However, we don't want to let the project die within LinkedIn and force > a community fork. As such, we want to investigate relieving ourselves of > ownership and donating Cruise Control. We believe Apache Kafka is likely the > right spot for this overall to maintain close continuity with the core Kafka > project. > > We'd like to begin a conversation on this and discuss what the process would > look like compared to other open source options. We have had discussions in > the past with Linux Foundation as well. If you could help identify who'd be > the right contact to start discussions with, I'd appreciate it! > > Thanks, > > Krit Petty, > Sr. Manager, Kafka, LinkedIn >
