Ddb needs a maintainer

Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 13 05:11:58 PST 2016


On Saturday, 13 February 2016 at 12:57:50 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 13.02.2016 um 11:03 schrieb Eugene Wissner:
>> On Saturday, 13 February 2016 at 05:02:07 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj 
>> wrote:
>>> Ddb is a relational database client for D [1]. Currently it 
>>> only
>>> supports PostgreSQL but is not limited to it. It could be 
>>> extended to
>>> support other backends.
>>>
>>> Built-in postgres client is a native implementation, that is 
>>> it does
>>> not depend on libpq. Instead it communicates directly with 
>>> the server
>>> avoiding text serialization and parsing overhead (PostgreSQL 
>>> protocol
>>> is stable and well documented).
>>>
>>> I don't use it and I don't work on it anymore. Simply because 
>>> I'm busy
>>> with other things and that things don't involve any RDBMS 
>>> support.
>>>
>>> It has some user base, few contributors and 22 forks on 
>>> github.
>>> Unfortunately, I could not handle pull requests and issues in 
>>> a
>>> reasonable time and that's why I'm posting this here. I hope 
>>> someone
>>> could take over this project and improve it.
>>>
>>> If you are interested, please either respond here or email me.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/pszturmaj/ddb
>>
>> Hey. I'm interested. I'm a web developer and PostgreSQL is my 
>> database
>> of choice. I also like the idea of a native implementation.
>> The only problem is that I'm currently a beginner in D 
>> programming (but
>> not a beginner in PostgreSQL).
>> But since I'll need some kind of D <-> PostgreSQL bindings for 
>> my new
>> project, I would be glad if I could help.
>
> BTW, I'd recommend to start a new organization on GitHub for 
> this, which makes it much easier to manage ownership changes 
> later on, if necessary. It also gives the main repository a 
> more official appearance.

Indeed. I have a fresh organization where I maintain D code: 
https://github.com/caraus-ecms. I could move it there and add 
pszturmaj to the organization.


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