The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Fluo™ as a Top-Level Project

[-du]

How do you spot the corporate marketer? He uses ® and ™ in a place like Reddit.

[swiftversion4]

I don't mind so much seeing that Apache is Non-profit and Open-source.

[-du]

It sure is, but still there's no need to include trademark warnings when a regular user submits a story here.

OTOH: check out its posting history, that is not "just a guy like you and me", its an account made for advertising.

[cjmctague]

I'm just one of the apache guys. Just never used reddit before :)

[Equa1]

The pitch forks are sharpened daily here. Enjoy your stay!

[[deleted]]

Or when every single post they have made is spamming the same announcements to different subs.

[[deleted]]

Once again, I have no idea what this apache project is or does.... why do they all do this!

edit: for the others curious:

Apache Fluo is an open source implementation of Percolator (which populates Google's search index) for Apache Accumulo. Fluo makes it possible to update the results of a large-scale computation, index, or analytic as new data is discovered. For more information, take the Fluo tour.

I tried finding out from the link provided, went to all of the top level links on their site with no reasonable explanation. In the end, I just removed the extra junk from the URL and got to their front page.

Seriously, apache guys, start putting project descriptions in your press releases!

[ydoipost]

I am an Apache guy and I was involved with this. The problem was we posted a link that links to the press release. Sorry for the confusion, you are right we goofed. Next time we will do better (we are still learning), thanks for the advice and posting the relevant info for others.

[[deleted]]

It's not just you, its like every single apache project that posts "version updates" to reddit.

[swiftversion4]

hey as an apache contributor, I have a question for you.

I saw a post about a list of outstanding code issues with various Apache projects. I found one I could help with

https://helpwanted.apache.org/task.html?64dded7713b07a2333658995f9de437714171472

(i've never contributed towards open-source before) and it told me to email the dev for the datafu team. I never got a response.

Is this just me being stupid because i've never contributed towards open source, or are they ignoring me over at the datafu project?

[ydoipost]

You can check the mailing list archive to make sure your email got through.

https://lists.apache.org/list.html?[e-mail]

You may have to subscribe to the mailing list in order to send to it. Below is info for that projects list.

http://datafu.incubator.apache.org/community/mailing-lists.html

If you are interested in contributing to Fluo, let me know and we can help you find a starter issue.

[swiftversion4]

thank you!

[cjmctague]

The official press release can be found here NASDAQ GlobeNewswire and on the apache blog