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To: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
Cc: Hiroshi Saito <[email protected]>
Cc: Inoue,Hiroshi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ODBC driver maintenance: PostgreSQL 16 support and other open items
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 07:13:07 -0400
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Dave Cramer
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On Sun, 3 Sept 2023 at 19:44, Michael Paquier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 11:19:54AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Sept 2023 at 06:27, Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Do you have a timeline for these? I can see that there are several
> >> people in the mailing list (not me) to step up the plate and help fix
> >> the issues. Would you consider moving project to Github, so that people
> >> can send PR and you can merge them, if you don't have time to fix them
> >> all?
> >
> > I'd certainly be a proponent of moving to github and helping out maintain
> > this.
>
> That would be like a big change, still if that helps in keeping the
> project more healthy than it is now, why not. From what I can see,
> this driver's development has been let aside.
>
This really isn't a big change. At least I don't see it that way. It makes
it much easier to create pull requests which are significantly easier to
manage than patch files.
>
> Saito-san and Inoue-san have done a good job over the years spending
> cycles on maintaining that. The question is who could actually take
> care of the basic maintenance of the driver? I do have a little bit
> of experience with the ODBC code base in the history of the project in
> the 2015~2017 area with its core code and the regression tests as
> VMware was relying heavily on it back these days. So I could handle a
> few of the compatibility changes to keep the thing able to build and
> pass the tests, but my experience feels kind of limited. Or it's just
> that everybody has zero experience with it and I'm one with the most
> experience :)
>
I had some experience looking at it, but would take some time to get up to
speed on this. Something I am willing to do. I'm sort of hoping this is
more of a maintenance thing than active development. I'm certainly willing
to pitch in.
Dave
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