Commissioning/Sponsoring Drill work :: Is it welcome?

[Stefán Baxter <st...@activitystream.com>]

Hi,

We are, unfortunately, still not in a position to contribute time to Drill
development despite using it heavily and liking it a lot.

We are, however, in a position to commission work for it to be contributed
is there are any developers here that would accept that kind of work and if
this practice is a acceptable by the Drill community.

There are several things we would love to see happen and are willing to
commission/sponsor over the next few months.

To name one, as an example, we would benefit from predicate push-down for
dictionary values (other than the statistical max/min values currently
supported (from 1.9)).

If this approach is not welcome then I apologize.

Regards,
  - Stefán Baxter (ActivityStream.com)

Re: Commissioning/Sponsoring Drill work :: Is it welcome?

[Stefán Baxter <st...@activitystream.com>]

Thank you Parth,

Any agreement with developers will be private but we will make sure to
contribute any improvements we may sponsor to the community.

Developers: please contact me directly on stefan@activitystream.com should
you wish to participate.

Regards,
 -Stefán



On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Parth Chandra <pa...@apache.org> wrote:

> Others may disagree, but I see no reason why you should not be allowed to
> approach contributors to work on specific items of interest to you.  It is
> the reality that programmers have to pay bills too :).
>
> As long as any posts you make on the dev list are made with the goal of
> improvement to Drill I'm sure it will be acceptable. Of course please keep
> any agreement you have with developers, private and off the list.
>
> Parth
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Stefán Baxter <st...@activitystream.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are, unfortunately, still not in a position to contribute time to
> Drill
> > development despite using it heavily and liking it a lot.
> >
> > We are, however, in a position to commission work for it to be
> contributed
> > is there are any developers here that would accept that kind of work and
> if
> > this practice is a acceptable by the Drill community.
> >
> > There are several things we would love to see happen and are willing to
> > commission/sponsor over the next few months.
> >
> > To name one, as an example, we would benefit from predicate push-down for
> > dictionary values (other than the statistical max/min values currently
> > supported (from 1.9)).
> >
> > If this approach is not welcome then I apologize.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   - Stefán Baxter (ActivityStream.com)
> >
>

Re: Commissioning/Sponsoring Drill work :: Is it welcome?

[Parth Chandra <pa...@apache.org>]

Others may disagree, but I see no reason why you should not be allowed to
approach contributors to work on specific items of interest to you.  It is
the reality that programmers have to pay bills too :).

As long as any posts you make on the dev list are made with the goal of
improvement to Drill I'm sure it will be acceptable. Of course please keep
any agreement you have with developers, private and off the list.

Parth



On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Stefán Baxter <st...@activitystream.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are, unfortunately, still not in a position to contribute time to Drill
> development despite using it heavily and liking it a lot.
>
> We are, however, in a position to commission work for it to be contributed
> is there are any developers here that would accept that kind of work and if
> this practice is a acceptable by the Drill community.
>
> There are several things we would love to see happen and are willing to
> commission/sponsor over the next few months.
>
> To name one, as an example, we would benefit from predicate push-down for
> dictionary values (other than the statistical max/min values currently
> supported (from 1.9)).
>
> If this approach is not welcome then I apologize.
>
> Regards,
>   - Stefán Baxter (ActivityStream.com)
>