by Eric Pugh On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! On July 2nd, 2007, I opened SOLR-284 , a ticket for adding content extraction to Solr. A committer on an open source project... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:21PM Aug 03, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Marvin Humphrey I "arrived" at the Apache Software Foundation in 2005, unreasonably angry about a bug in Apache Lucene. By "arrived", I mean that I sent the first few emails among several thousand I would go on to send over the next 15 years — the ASF didn't have a physical office where I could show up to buttonhole... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:05PM May 11, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Jarek Potiuk During my career, I have been a software engineer, Tech Lead Manager at Google, a robotics engineer at an AI and robotics startup, and am currently the Principal Software Engineer of a software house, Polidea, which I helped grow from 6 to 60 people within 6 years as CTO. Over the past year and a half I was a user, then... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:46AM Apr 06, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Chris Thistlethwaite I became part of the Apache community as a member of the ASF Infrastructure team in 2016, and was elected an ASF Member in 2019. Browsing through the other "Success at Apache" posts made me reflect on the word "success". Years ago, I was asked in a job interview, "How do you define... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:03PM Feb 03, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
By Patricia Shanahan After retiring, I wanted to continue programming but without the pressure and constraints of a job, so I started contributing to Apache. Open software development the Apache way is a great retirement hobby, offering social contacts, intellectual challenge, continuous learning, and the pleasant feeling of making a... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:47PM Sep 23, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Dmitriy Pavlov All newbies in Open Source communities may sometimes think that they’ll never be able to become Committers. Many treat this role as a prestigious one, granted only for special feats, and after having written a ton of code. But not all things are so simple, and I hope my story will help you. Election as Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:48PM Sep 21, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Isabel Drost-Fromm "A decade ago" - according to common wisdom for software engineering that's the equivalent of the stone age: The only constant is change - and rapid change at that. This blog post is going to tell an entirely different story: One about what persistence, patience and continuous engagement can... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:18PM Aug 06, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache