Jeremiah has summed it up rather nicely. I'd just like to back it up by saying that I am also happy to help with transition to a new home. While CI isn't a priority for me any more, I'd still like to see it live on.
Cheers OJ On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Jeremiah Peschka <jeremiah.pesc...@gmail.com > wrote: > At this point it's been 8 months since the last full release of > CorrugatedIron[1]. Development has continued since then, but the pace has > slowed down considerably. > > ## The Life Of A Consultant > > As a consultant, you're called upon to be a deep specialist in one > technology. > > OJ Reeves[2] and I started this project because we were both interested in > becoming specialists in Riak. We had similar experience. We both worked on > Microsoft platforms - OJ with C# and me with SQL Server. > > As time passed, though, we both focused more and more on technologies that > weren't Riak. OJ veered off into security and I continued to dive deeper > into the world of SQL Server. Over time, our interests were pulled in other > directions. > > It's difficult to find the time to work on an extracurricular project even > when everyone is interested in supporting the project. It's harder when you > both know that the other person's passions lie elsewhere. > > ## The State of the Game > > As of today, we've implemented 80% of the features that are necessary to > support Riak 2.0 on the `develop` branch of CorrugatedIron. The project is > in relatively rough shape and neither one of us have committed code in > several months. > > ## Looking for Contributors > > We couldn't have foreseen this when we started, or even even 6 months ago, > but both OJ and I are no longer able to actively maintain CorrugatedIron. > > We're looking for contributors to help us with the maintenance and > development of CorrugatedIron. In short: **CorrugatedIron needs a new > home**. > > Working on CorrugatedIron has been a lot of fun, but priorities have > changed and it's time to move on and leave full time development to folks > who have the time and energy to work on it. > > If you're interested in picking on where we left off, email me at < > jeremiah.pesc...@gmail.com> and let me know that you're interested. I'm > more than happy to help make this transition happen smoothly and painlessly. > > [1]: http://github.com/DistributedNonsense/CorrugatedIron > [2]: http://buffered.io/ > > --- > Jeremiah Peschka - Managing Director, Brent Ozar Unlimited > MCSE: Data Platform, MVP > Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > -- OJ Reeves | @TheColonial <https://twitter.com/TheColonial> | +61 431 952 586 | http://buffered.io/ PGP 4096R/1FAA5749 | 4EAE 350E 13FE 7584 FFC8 B97D 49EE E751 1FAA 5749
_______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
