Re: Maybe time for an alpha release of the pgsql2 project

Here is a text: https://blog.hackeriet.no/building-an-async-postgresql-driver/

And here is the source code of the text in markdown:
https://github.com/hackeriet/blog/blob/master/_posts/2018-11-09-building-an-async-postgresql-driver.md

Feel free to use as much or little of it as you see fit :)

//Alex
Den tors 8 nov. 2018 kl 20:22 skrev Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>:
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> Alexander,
>
> sure I can put it up on jdbc... let me know
> Dave Cramer
>
> davec@postgresintl.com
> www.postgresintl.com
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 12:39, Alexander Kjäll <alexander.kjall@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks, this feels big :)
>>
>> I'll write a release statement for my blog and if you want you can
>> mirror it on https://jdbc.postgresql.org/ if that's an appropriate
>> place for it.
>>
>> best regards
>> Alexander Kjäll
>>
>> Den tors 8 nov. 2018 kl 15:15 skrev Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>:
>> >
>> > Alexander,
>> >
>> > I have changed the name of the project and released it to maven
>> >
>> > Dave Cramer
>> >
>> > davec@postgresintl.com
>> > www.postgresintl.com
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 14:41, Alexander Kjäll <alexander.kjall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I think I have prepared everything for an alpha release, I also
>> >> renamed the library from pgsql2 to pgAdba, could someone who has the
>> >> correct access bits go in and rename the github repo from
>> >> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgsql2 to https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgadba
>> >> also?
>> >>
>> >> I don't really know the normal release procedure for pgjdbc, but I
>> >> have prepared so that is someone does "mvn -DskipTests clean install"
>> >> all artifacts that should be required to upload to maven central is
>> >> produced.
>> >>
>> >> -DskipTests because the tests require that you have a working Docker
>> >> environment, plus one of the TLS tests sometimes doesn't manage to
>> >> finish before the timeout kicks in.
>> >>
>> >> //Alex
>> >> Den tis 30 okt. 2018 kl 10:35 skrev Alexander Kjäll <alexander.kjall@gmail.com>:
>> >> >
>> >> > My understanding from reading the jdbc-spec mailing list is that the
>> >> > api is work in progress until they are happy with it.
>> >> >
>> >> > Last updates to the specification was published 2018-10-22 and wasn't
>> >> > very large, and there has also been debate on if the fundamental
>> >> > return object should be an Future or if it should be a reactive
>> >> > stream.
>> >> >
>> >> > I think there will be more breaking api changes to come, so it's
>> >> > important to communicate this to those that are interested in
>> >> > experimenting with the library.
>> >> >
>> >> > //Alex
>> >> > Den tis 30 okt. 2018 kl 02:13 skrev Chad Retz <chad.retz@gmail.com>:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Are there any updates on the ADBA abstraction itself? Specifically
>> >> > > around stability, test suites, potential inclusion in JRE in some
>> >> > > version, active contribution from anyone on the OpenJDK team, etc.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Thanks,
>> >> > > Chad
>> >> > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 9:38 AM Alexander Kjäll
>> >> > > <alexander.kjall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Hi
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > I'm not totally sure if this is the best place for this topic, but as
>> >> > > > the library was briefly discussed on the list before I'll continue
>> >> > > > that tradition.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > There is still a lot more work to be done on the adba driver for
>> >> > > > postgresql, and the adba specification from oracle is still subject to
>> >> > > > change.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > But the driver have also come a long way and is in a state where it
>> >> > > > would be useful to be able to experiment with it in external projects,
>> >> > > > and therefore I'm feeling that it's time for a first alpha release.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > I have a number of questions regading naming and procedure and stuff like that.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > 1) I feel that the name pgsql2 isn't optimal, maybe change it to pgAdba.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > 2) Do you want to publish the artifact under the org.postgresql
>> >> > > > groupId to maven central?
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > 3) Any opinion on version numbering? I was thinking that 0.1.0-ALPHA
>> >> > > > could be appropriate.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > //Alex
>> >> > > >
>> >>