ADBA feedback

Mark Rotteveel mark at lawinegevaar.nl
Tue May 1 15:24:36 UTC 2018


Thanks, I have reached out to Dave, and we are discussing things now.

On 27-4-2018 18:11, Lance Andersen wrote:
> Maybe sync up with Dave Cramer.  Please see https://github.com/pgjdbc/AoJ/
> 
> 
>> On Apr 27, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Mark Rotteveel <mark at lawinegevaar.nl 
>> <mailto:mark at lawinegevaar.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> On 27-4-2018 16:36, Douglas Surber wrote:
>>> The world doesn’t need more than one implementation of AoJ. AoJ is 
>>> purely a descriptive name; there is nothing creative about it. 
>>> Perhaps our biggest goal in creating AoJ was to jump start a 
>>> community project to create an AoJ implementation. So a community AoJ 
>>> fork could (should) use the AoJ name though a different package.
>>
>> I think idea this has a bootstrapping problem. There needs to be one 
>> such initiative (and - hopefully - only one), and there needs to be 
>> sufficient traction for that to remain alive.
>>
>> I'm willing to create an organization on GitHub that contains such a 
>> fork, but - partly due to health issues - I really don't have the time 
>> and energy to be very actively contributing or involved in that for 
>> the foreseeable future. And that can easily be the downfall of such a 
>> fork.
>>
>> Would there be any objections to create a GitHub organization called 
>> adba-community, or maybe jdbc-community (which would allow it to be 
>> broader than just AoJ and ADBA)?


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Mark Rotteveel


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