RE: [PEAR-DEV] DB seems orphaned. Become a maintainer?

> From: Daniel Convissor [mailto:danielc@analysisandsolutions.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:16 AM > The DB package has tons of open bugs. Many of them are easy to fix. Some > even have patch files already associated with them. A couple are > duplicates. Yes we definitely need a helping hand here. > I have posted a whole bunch of patches over the past month. None have > been applied. I've even contacted Tomas directly, but haven't received > any reply. I'm not faulting Tomas, or anyone. I know how busy we can > get. At the same time, things need to get fixed. Well generally I would favour a smoother transition; meaning that the original lead makes the decision and reviews the fixes/additions by the new contributor. If Tomas is unavailable maybe other people can try to take over that role. I can help there but I wouldn't want to take up the entire responsibility. Alan maybe we two can handle this? > I would like to become a maintainer for the DB package. My computer has > MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Sybase, MS SQL Server and Oracle on it at > the moment. SQLite is coming soon. Thats a very nice list of setups you got there. I assume you are aware of the DB test suite? (BTW you are of course also welcome to run the MDB test suite on your databases .. I am always interested in getting some more feedback) > Here's a list of several bugs I've either opened or posted comments about. > The comments contain patches and/or notes about the reports being > duplicates. > > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=234 > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=361 > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=397 > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=350 > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=49 > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=231 > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=101 > > This request comes in part because it's geting harder and harder to keep > things straight because I'm now running a verison of DB that has patches > on top of patches on top of patches. Then trying to fix new bugs makes > things very awkward. I will be spending a bit of time on PEAR related stuff over christmas. The list is getting longer and longer (RDF class, LiveUser, MDB2 and now DB) but oh well .. what else are vacations for? :-) Regards, Lukas