Comment by chrisabrams | Hacker News Reader

Comment by chrisabrams | Hacker News Reader

OP here. I'm an open source contributor, not affiliated with RethinkDB Co. I've been using RethinkDB in production for years, and it has been one of the greatest blessings of my engineering career.

I am a big believer in RethinkDB and I want to see the project continue forward just like many fellow HN members have expressed in the past few days. I plan to share this with open source foundations to help spark an opportunity to help find RethinkDB a new home.

I would encourage constructive communication here. This is about the RethinkDB community working together to help the project end up in a good spot. What foundation or company is not the goal here. Saying this foundation is "good" and another is "bad" is not the goal here. The goal is to work together and make it clear we the community support and thank the RethinkDB team for all of their hard work.

Chris, thanks for leading the charge. We're very interested in having RethinkDB join an open-source foundation.

I've been overwhelmed (in the best way) by the level of support we've seen from the community in planning RethinkDB's next steps. If you'd like to contribute to the open-source project in any way, let us know [1]. You can also join us in #open-rethinkdb on our public Slack group, where we're starting the planning process.

Feel free to reach out to me with ideas and questions. Thanks for all the kind words.

[1]: https://goo.gl/forms/tFjI4JI4AvIcPi3D3

Node went to the Linux Foundation which seems to have worked well for the last couple of years.

Node was in a very tough position as the community had actually split into multiple factions. Uniting under a foundation has only strengthened Node's community.

We can only hope that RethinkDB's community can use this time to unite together and help push the project forward, no matter where the project ends up.

You should probably reach out to RethinkDB and coordinate with them, I'm sure they have plans to keep it going somehow.

I've spoken to Mike. This is my gift to him, Slava, and the rest of the RethinkDB team for all of their hard work. The community is behind them, we're not going to let this project go anywhere!

Amen to that!!

I wish there was a way I could upvote this a lot more than once

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