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This paragraph confuses me:

> Redis Labs customers often asked directly for such things. And actually, such features could be cool, but it’s not Redis, I’m not interested, and the open source side of Redis does not have the development force to keep all this things going btw. And this is a major advantage both for Redis and for Redis Labs: it is relatively cheap to pay just me and a few more OSS development time internally, while allocating the rest of the resources to development of things that are useful for the Redis Labs business. There is anyway a great deal of contributions arriving from the community. And I also keep saying “no” to all this fancy ideas… which is also a problem.

At first the author says that there is not enough manpower to develop new large-scale Redis features, but then he says that contributions are being turned away.




Sorry when saying "no to fancy ideas" I mean to the ideas of doing with Redis more than its natural scope, not saying no to the contributions. I'll clarify.


Hey, antirez! I don't understand all the recent drama around Redis, I think what you and your crew are doing is absolutely awesome. Thank you for all your hard work. This is your work, and you never have to defend yourself, or give long and deep explanations for what you do with your own work. You don't owe anything to anybody. I hope you become a millionaire :)


I think the idea is that plenty of people want to add a feature, but they might not stick around to maintain it.

Then the core group is left with the maintenance headache for years to come, and more features makes any changes antirez wants to make more difficult.


There is also a cost to increasing absolute codebase size, even when people stick around to maintain their contributions.

I admire antirez very much for making it a priority to keep the core small.


I admire antirez generally, his C code is really great reading for instructional purposes.




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