FreeTDS Development Group

[Marc Abramowitz <msabramo AT gmail.com>]

Very well said. Ditto.

You guys are doing an amazing job. I hope to contribute more someday.


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Andy Wakefield <a_wake AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> James,
>
> I'm sure I speak for many when I say to you and to Frediano how much I
> appreciate the work you have done and continue to do to maintain FreeTDS.
>
> I would love, someday, to be in a position to contribute ... right now,
> programming using FreeTDS is very much an addendum to my day job, so I
> am lucky when I can find time to work on the program that uses FreeTDS.
> If I ever run into a bug that I can help to solve, I will gladly do it,
> but as you say, you all have done a great job. For me it has provided
> and continues to provide trouble-free access to the database I need to
> use, and I am so grateful that it is available.
>
> AHW
>
>
> On 10/02/2013 08:39 PM, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 04:01:40 +0000
> > Chris Kings-Lynne <Chris.Kings-Lynne AT navitas.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Surely you guys have got releasing down to 'make dist' by now? :)
> > You remind me of a boss I once had who in meetings would ask of some
> > task, "Who's going to push the button?"
> >
> > We actually "make dist" every night; it's been automated for years.  A
> > release though -- if you're serious about it -- requires
> >
> > 1.  a review of the changes
> > 2   a summary of them in the release notes
> > 3.  a review of the documentation (which usually involves some fixes and
> > improvements)
> > 4.  branching in the source code repository
> > 5.  changes to the nightly build (because version changes affect
> > directory names)
> > 6   advertisements
> > 7.  updates to the website
> >
> > I've never done it in less than two days.
> >
> > To make it worthwhile, I prefer there to be some major addition to the
> > feature set, a reason for people to drop what they're doing and upgrade
> > their FreeTDS installation.  At present, ISTM full support for TDS 7.3
> > would be a good milestone, but so far the only 7.3 support we have is
> > in the ODBC library.
> >
> > I've been at the helm of this project for about 10 years.  I worked on
> > testing, error handling, iconv, and low-level communcations issues.
> > Frediano and I are both fanatical about writing standards-compliant,
> > safe code, and I would like to think that the care we took has made
> > FreeTDS reliable and robust.
> >
> > We may actually have done too good a job.  FreeTDS may suffer
> > from the "good enough" syndrome: it could be improved, but it functions
> > well enough that no one is particularly motivated to hack on it.
> > Perhaps bugs are better motivators than features?
> >
> > I'm sure I've spent more hours answering questions and writing
> > documentation than I have writing code.  I'm prepared to keep doing
> > that, but I don't have a lot of interest anymore in tinkering with
> > DB-Library.  Someone else is going to have to carry that ball.
> >
> > I continue to hope someone will, but so far no one has.  Consequently
> > there isn't much to release, and not much reason to push the button.
> >
> > --jkl
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