I would note that the original question was about “developers”, not 
“committers” per se. I sort of assumed that the question implied the latter, 
but that’s not necessarily true. One can “develop” and optionally “contribute” 
code without being a committer, per se. There are probably plenty of users of 
Cassandra out there who do their own enhancement of Cassandra and don’t 
necessarily want or have the energy to contribute back their enhancements, or 
intend to and haven’t gotten around to it yet. And there are also 
“contributors” who have “developed” and “contributed” patches (ANYBODY can do 
that, not just “committers”) but are not officially anointed as “committers”.

So, who knows how many contributors or “developers” are out there beyond the 
known committers. The important thing is that Cassandra is open source and 
licensed so that any enterprise can use it and readily and freely debug and 
enhance it without any sort of mandatory requirement that they be completely 
dependent on some particular vendor.

There’s actually a wiki detailing some of the other vendors, beyond DataStax, 
who provide consulting (which may include actual Cassandra enhancement in some 
cases) and support for Cassandra:
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ThirdPartySupport

(For disclosure, I am a part-time contractor for DataStax, but now on the sales 
side, although by background is as a developer.)

-- Jack Krupansky

From: Dave Brosius 
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:48 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org 
Subject: Re: What % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?

The question assumes that it's likely that datastax employees become committers.

Actually, it's more likely that committers become datastax employees.

So this underlying tone that datastax only really 'wants' datastax employees to 
be cassandra committers, is really misleading.

Why wouldn't a company want to hire people who have shown a desire and aptitude 
to work on products that they care about? It's just rational. And damn genius, 
actually.

I'm sure they'd be happy to have an influx of non-datastax committers. patches 
welcome.

dave



On 05/17/2014 08:28 AM, Peter Lin wrote:


  if you look at the new committers since 2012 they are mostly datastax




  On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote:

    so 30%… according to that data.  



    On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> 
wrote:

      On 05/14/2014 03:39 PM, Kevin Burton wrote:

        I'm curious what % of cassandra developers are employed by Datastax?



      http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers

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