Re: JDBC 4 Compliance

<div>På tirsdag 25. juni 2013 kl. 15:44:49, skrev Dave Cramer <<a href="mailto:pg@fastcrypt.com"
target="_blank">pg@fastcrypt.com</a>>:</div><blockquotestyle="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt
0pt0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Here's the way I see this from my POV. <div> </div><div style="">First
someperspective. </div><div style=""> </div><div style="">There are approx. 5 people actively participating in this
discussion.1000's of other people are happy just downloading the driver. In my mind they are the market.</div><div
style=""> </div><divstyle="">Now some reality.</div><div style=""> </div><div style="">I have been maintaining the
driversince around 2000. Since that time others have contributed greatly. Namely Kris Jurka and Oliver Jowett stand out
aspeople who have stepped up in a big way and in fact taken over much of the work when I was unavailable</div><div
style=""> </div><divstyle="">At the moment I am the only one left. I have never been paid for any of this. I am not
expectingto, but this reality means that I have limited time to work on it.</div><div style=""> </div><div
style="">Otherthan Kris and Oliver, there have been others who have expressed interest in donating their time and
effort,for whatever reason they do not remain active. </div><div style=""> </div><div style="">In the case of Kevin's
10month old patch Craig Ringer originally reviewed that patch and I left him in charge of it. As a result it became
staleand Kevin decided his time was better spent writing a whole new driver. </div><div style=""> </div><div
style="">Inmost open source projects people get involved slowly. Patches which involve large changes to the codebase
arenot accepted by people who are not going to take future responsibility for them. </div><div style=""> </div><div
style="">Keepin mind that I have considerable knowledge of how the code works right now. If I were to accept a huge
change,then I become responsible for it. Unless I see some continued commitment from someone how do I know they will
continueto be responsible for this new code ?</div><div style=""> </div><div style=""> </div><div style="">Moving
forward.As I see it the number one problem is lack of resources. Instead of opting for wholesale change the project
needsresources. Someone else to review patches, someone to work on the website. Someone to deploy to maven.</div><div
style=""> </div><divstyle="">Anyone feel like volunteering ?</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>As a developer,
amongthose other 1000s of people, having used PG from JVM-based languages for the past 13 years I'm really starting to
missbetter support for UDT and BLOBs. As development seems to have stagnated in the standard-driver I very much welcome
Kevin'snew driver (impressive work man!) and hope it will be the start of "pgjdbc-NG"
driver.</div><div> </div><div>Thereare a lot of people who don't care for JAVA < 7</div><div> </div><div
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