Re: Increasing transparency of corporate support for Apache Arrow development

I'm not proposing to summarize or display contributions based on LOC changes -- this is one of the worst metrics that I know of. To give an extreme example, take a look at the contribution graph for Apache ORC: https://github.com/apache/orc/graphs/contributors I don't think you can infer anything

Re: Increasing transparency of corporate support for Apache Arrow development

What about separating committers and companies? We could have a section listing all committers as we currently do and have a separate listing of all companies that employed a committer while they were contributing. This will give individuals and companies attribution but does not make a big mat

Re: Increasing transparency of corporate support for Apache Arrow development

This is a tough one. I think we need to strike a delicate balance: we should thank companies for being benefactors, but should not put up with bragging (or as Ted puts it, genital comparisons). In Calcite, we allow committers to show their company affiliations[1]. I was initially concerned, but it

Re: Increasing transparency of corporate support for Apache Arrow development

Yes, there are several such examples. And it turned into a monstrous mess with companies bragging over lines of code changed. Oddly, the guys who did lots of reformatting did really well. There is also the problem of the very strong Apache tradition that it is individuals who contribute to project

Re: Increasing transparency of corporate support for Apache Arrow development

So Spark lists the committers and current company affiliations (but not historic) on its website. On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:33 PM Abdul Rahman wrote: > Are there examples of other larger Apache projects that have done this? I > am assuming this should happen rather frequently given the large n

Re: Increasing transparency of corporate support for Apache Arrow development

Are there examples of other larger Apache projects that have done this? I am assuming this should happen rather frequently given the large number of popular Apache projects (or just any other Open Source project) Get Outlook for Android F