I'm curious to know if this is anyone's first time hearing about Trino?
Lots of people using Athena have probably never heard of Presto, let alone Trino.
Yup, I would say Athena is the most commonly used version of Trino/Presto out there.
Also, if anyone is reading this wondering which version Athena comes from, it's a release that was common to both Presto and Trino before the fork. However, more recently we've worked with the Athena team on getting the newer Trino features that aren't in Presto today in Athena. So it's starting to become more based on Trino.
I worked at FB, too, and I can confirm you speak the truth. This process is problematic, though. The "special case" is the standard process at FB: to make external contributors second class citizens. They have their reasons, but doing this pushes the locus of discussion and action to the place where work happens fastest: inside the company. That means that the interests of FB engineers drive the project; in other wor…
> They have their reasons, but doing this pushes the locus of discussion and action to the place where work happens fastest: inside the company. That means that the interests of FB engineers drive the project; in other words, not open. As an outsider and frequent consumer of some high profile open source projects 'owned' by Big Tech Companies I get the feeling that this same thing happens everywhere. It probably does…
Not all of them. Square doesn't quite meet the bar for the top tier, but I can confirm that nobody gets special treatment for the open source work I'm involved with. It's easier to get face time with maintainers, sure, but you have no special access to the external project.