Since the first line of code was written in May 2015, TiDB, as a new open source distributed database project, has gone through the day of transformation from 0 to 1. I passed the glorious moment when TiKV storage was classified into CNCF Incubating Projects; Peripheral tools gradually improved, with full wings; Gradually mature and steady, in nearly 1000 users in the production environment of continuous polishing and upgrading.

All these honors and achievements belong to the community

TiDB Repo Contributor breakthrough 400, Thanks for your contributions!

In the past year, the architecture and governance rules of TiDB open source community have been constantly standardized and upgraded:

  • Community self-governing Organizations and roles:

    • So far, the community has launched 20 Working groups (WG) and set up 5 Special Interest groups (SIG), all of which have rich phased output;
    • In addition to the Maintainer, Committer and Contributor roles, Reviewer and Active Contributor roles have been added to provide you with the fun of “step by step upgrade battle”.

  • More and more community activities:

    • In addition to the traditional Infra Meetup, TiDB TechDay and TiDB DevCon offline communication activities, TiDB Hackathon with Geek spirit has been successfully held for two sessions and many fantastic projects have been born.
    • TiDB Performance Challenge season 1 has ended, and usability Challenge Season 2 is underway. In the next 3 months, participants will challenge “Make TiDB Better to use”.
    • Book Rush will be held this weekend. Community partners will be challenged to co-write a 50,000-60,000-word TiDB technical Book in 48 hours.

  • The map of community learning continues to expand:

    • The open Talent Plan for the open source community is preparing for the 2.0 upgrade, integrating more quality learning resources, so that more community partners can learn and make good use of it, and play more freely in the open source world and in the field of distributed database.
    • PingCAP University also has a learning database for DBA students, including online video courses and offline training, with rich contents and forms.

  • TiDB Map is working on:

    • In order for each TiDB Developer to have a clear understanding of the “gameplay” of the TiDB community and find their own direction of expertise, we have compiled the Contribution Map, showing the things that people can do in each Repo and reference materials. At the same time, the Map is still expanding.
    • For TiDB User Group, we have compiled the TiDB cluster troubleshooting map and performance tuning map, and welcome your suggestions.

As more and more people get to know and use TiDB, we also increasingly realize that we need to make a database product that truly solves the pain points of users and belongs to the future. “The road will be long”, but the original intention remains the same:

Get together with a group of like-minded friends to do the cool and right thing, even if it’s hard or once thought impossible. But isn’t making the world a better place exactly why we’re here?

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, You have to get a lot of people involved. (Linus Torvalds)

Looking forward to working with more TiDB community partners in the future!

Thanks again to the following 400 TiDB Repo Contributors and all our community partners for their contributions:

See you at the next milestone!

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