Congratulations

[Will <wm...@gmail.com>]

Ya'll have moved from a public forum on google (a company whose 
reputation waxes and wanes in the communities served) to apache!

Of course apache is a closed community, now ain't it? /Meritocracy/ is 
in part achieved by adopting a certain measure of say, "canonical" 
diplomacy in expression after all.

So. Let's add somthing to the apache community of developers, what do 
you say?

My suggestion is that we _begin by authenticating all algorithm and 
feature sources and references_. In the vein of exposing the strength or 
weaknesses of the ... underlying computer science. That's right. I don't 
understand the "apparent" disdain for research and case studies in 
putting forth suggestions.

Kafka could begin to bridge the ethereal nature of ASF projects and 
beginning a renewal of the importance of all colleagues in approaching 
our work as a methodological venture (scientific, engineering ...)

To paraphrase peter drucker: innovation is the result of hard work. stop 
pretending it all happened in your own data center folks.

last <rant/> (yeah i didn't tell you i was starting one. sorry this 
time)  on to more technical work than acknowledging those before us.