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Many of the Redis developers left to form Valkey, so that they could keep working on the Open Source project they wanted to work on. Valkey is continuing a proj

Many of the Redis developers left to form Valkey, so that they could keep working on the Open Source project they wanted to work on. Valkey is continuing a project that was released under Open Source terms, after the original company rugpulled the Open Source project in favor of a proprietary one. Or, in other words, Valkey is Jenkins here, and Redis is Hudson.

benatkin 2y ago
Indeed. The project had continuity. The trademark exited the building.
antirez 2y ago
> Many of the Redis developers left to form Valkey What's the point of spreading informations that are not true? I believe there is a single person that was in Redis and works there now, at least AFAIK. And this person stopped working at Redis long time ago (and was not a core developer). So I'm not understanding who joined ValKey from Redis folks. Everybody is working at Redis: me, Oran, Yossi, Meir, many others.
- bhouston 2y ago
  > I believe there is a single person that was in Redis and works there now, at least AFAIK. And this person stopped working at Redis long time ago (and was not a core developer). It is probably more correct to say a bunch of Redis contributors left the Redis GitHub project and moved over to Valkey. You can see there are a bunch of contributors listed on this page who seem to predate the fork and who have continued to contribute: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/graphs/contributors https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/graphs/contributors Particularly these contributors standout: https://github.com/enjoy-binbin https://github.com/enjoy-binbin https://github.com/madolson https://github.com/madolson https://github.com/soloestoy https://github.com/soloestoy https://github.com/hwware https://github.com/hwware https://github.com/zuiderkwast https://github.com/zuiderkwast https://github.com/hpatro https://github.com/hpatro https://github.com/pizhenwei https://github.com/pizhenwei
  - rubiquity 2y ago
    Nearly all of them work at cloud providers so they literally just followed their income stream.
    - bhouston 2y ago
      > Nearly all of them work at cloud providers so they literally just followed their income stream. Sure. And same for Redis employees who continue to work on the Redis Github project. All my significant contributions to open source have had financial incentives as well.
    - reconditerose 2y ago
      I know this doesn't mean much, but I spent a lot of time outside of work helping to maintain the Redis codebase. I attended our meetings and responded to issues on vacation because I cared about the community, it was more than just a paycheck for me. I don't regret doing any of that.

benatkin 2y ago

Indeed. The project had continuity. The trademark exited the building.

antirez 2y ago

> Many of the Redis developers left to form Valkey What's the point of spreading informations that are not true? I believe there is a single person that was in Redis and works there now, at least AFAIK. And this person stopped working at Redis long time ago (and was not a core developer). So I'm not understanding who joined ValKey from Redis folks. Everybody is working at Redis: me, Oran, Yossi, Meir, many others.

bhouston 2y ago
> I believe there is a single person that was in Redis and works there now, at least AFAIK. And this person stopped working at Redis long time ago (and was not a core developer). It is probably more correct to say a bunch of Redis contributors left the Redis GitHub project and moved over to Valkey. You can see there are a bunch of contributors listed on this page who seem to predate the fork and who have continued to contribute: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/graphs/contributors https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/graphs/contributors Particularly these contributors standout: https://github.com/enjoy-binbin https://github.com/enjoy-binbin https://github.com/madolson https://github.com/madolson https://github.com/soloestoy https://github.com/soloestoy https://github.com/hwware https://github.com/hwware https://github.com/zuiderkwast https://github.com/zuiderkwast https://github.com/hpatro https://github.com/hpatro https://github.com/pizhenwei https://github.com/pizhenwei
- rubiquity 2y ago
  Nearly all of them work at cloud providers so they literally just followed their income stream.
  - bhouston 2y ago
    > Nearly all of them work at cloud providers so they literally just followed their income stream. Sure. And same for Redis employees who continue to work on the Redis Github project. All my significant contributions to open source have had financial incentives as well.
  - reconditerose 2y ago
    I know this doesn't mean much, but I spent a lot of time outside of work helping to maintain the Redis codebase. I attended our meetings and responded to issues on vacation because I cared about the community, it was more than just a paycheck for me. I don't regret doing any of that.