HN user
Yes I am part of the community. Yes I have used clickhouse for many years now. Yes I have recommended clickhouse to a number of others and helped them personally get started. I think it's a great piece of technology.
"forced to do RFCs on GitHub" The author has raised 1 RFC ever. Have you evidence they attemnpted to contribute more in the past? Proposals to form a steering committee? sponsorship? PRs?
In 4 years, the author has raised 6 issues and zero PRs. The latest issue was raised last week to inflame this same argument and is 4x longer than any previous issue.
The blog author founded altinity. Altinity's main product offering is a hosted clickhouse service. The top 10 committers to clickhouse all seem to be clickhouse employees. Looking at altinity on github, they contribute much less open source. If clickhouse the company are spending 40%+ of their money to build the product, then others including altinity spend 5% dev and 80% marketing, they will get more customers. That isn't sustainable. How do you solve that? Other than fencing off exclusive enterprise features.