Some clarifications: BountySource asked the Apache Cassandra PMC (project management committee), which I chair, to help come up with the list of features. All

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-engineer-java https://www.smartrecruiters.com/DataStax/71254492-cassandra-...