When I first took this beat, in early 2005, it was common for companies to brag about how many committers they had. But as these firms have grown, that commitment has to be balanced with money ...

Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair of Hadoop project committers from Cloudera shared details on how the changes will impact YARN and HDFS. The biggest change coming to ...

The change didn’t alter any code: It struck a paragraph from a tiny text file titled “committers” that described the purpose and provenance of the software bundle. In Github—a website that ...