Welcome to Wombat Wisdom, a community-driven organization dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge, components, plugins, and tools around the wombat project.
Wombat is an open-source tool to build data pipelines. It is built on top of RedPanda Benthos Core and provides components, tools and plugins under a permissive license.
At Wombat Wisdom, we believe in the power of collaboration and open-source software. Our mission is to create a community-driven ecosystem where developers, engineers, and enthusiasts can come together to share knowledge, ideas, and projects that make our life of dealing with data at least a bit easier.
Wombat Wisdom has been created as an answer to the community questioning the aquisition of the project previously known as Benthos. While the Benthos core lives on as RedPanda Benthos, a lot of the components which previously existed have been positioned as RedPanda Connect with some of these being changed towards a commercial license. We get it, a company needs to be make money and it is a genuine move, but it does have an impact on the community and the ability to experience and contribute to the project:
- the ability to just run the project without having to rely on the new owners ecosystem
- the ability to contribute to the project without the risk of the new owners changing the license at a later point
- free use, with as little restrictions as possible of the project, tools an knowledge
We support RedPanda and the aquisition and hope to work together to have RedPanda Benthos reach its full potential. At the same time we want to provide people with options and kickstart an ecosystem that goes beyond a single organization and the perceptions, valid or false, people have.
If you're interested in contributing to our community, here are some ways you can get started:
- Submit an issue: if you've identified a problem or need with the existing components, plugins, or tools, submit an issue on GitHub.
- Create a pull request: if you have a fix or enhancement for an existing component, plugin, or tool, create a pull request to contribute your changes.
- Start a new project: if you have an idea for a new component, plugin, or tool, start a new project and share it with the community.
To ensure that contributions are high-quality and consistent with our goals, we'll follow these guidelines:
- Code style: use the same coding style as the original wombat project.
- Testing: include thorough testing for any new components, plugins, or tools to ensure they work correctly.
- Documentation: provide clear and concise documentation for each component, plugin, or tool.
If you're interested in exploring the existing components, plugins, and tools, you can start by visiting our GitHub repository and browsing through the different projects. From there, you can read through the documentation to get started.
Thank you for joining us on this journey! Let's build an amazing community around Wombat 💪🐰