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 -- Kind regards, Michael -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: San Francisco, CA Skype: burtonator blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are people.
