Fundraiser for Bounties: Cassandra

Some clarifications:

BountySource asked the Apache Cassandra PMC (project management committee), which I chair, to help come up with the list of features. All of these are pre-existing features from the Cassandra roadmap and are reasonably self-contained. Just like other contributions, Apache committers will review and take responsibility for maintaining code accepted this way.

I frequently get emails from people curious about Cassandra asking "what would be a good place to contribute?" For people like this who are looking for a challenge, this could be a win/win of getting a little more visibility into possible areas to work on, as well as earning some extra money.

That said, this absolutely isn't seen as a primary way to drive Cassandra development. Wearing my other hat as DataStax founder, I run a team of engineers working on Cassandra full time. We are hiring: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/DataStax/71254492-cassandra-...

Open source projects have people who contribute to them all the time (and for much much less then this). This just provides extra incentive. Gives additional motivation for people on the fence. Ive contributed to C* (gasp for free) before but never anything big, this is appealing to me. It gets issues that people want done complete, introduces another developer to the internals more. I think its a definite win-win.

Extortionate. Especially considering there are alternatives that take nothing.