Re: ODBC driver maintenance: PostgreSQL 16 support and other open items

On Mon, 4 Sept 2023 at 07:13, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks> wrote:

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> Dave Cramer
> www.postgres.rocks
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> On Sun, 3 Sept 2023 at 19:44, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 11:19:54AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2 Sept 2023 at 06:27, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> 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?
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>> > I'd certainly be a proponent of moving to github and helping out
>> maintain
>> > this.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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 :)
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> 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.
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> Dave
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To be clear, I am offering to help in any way. However, only with the
agreement of Saito-san and Inoue-san.

Dave