[hibernate-dev] solidDB Hibernate dialect ?

[Steve Ebersole]

On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote:

> In terms of actually getting it included?  Well just passing the  
> testsuite is of course a first step.
>
> Beyond that though I am a little leery of adding new dialects "just  
> because someone contributed (dumped) it".  The reasoning is quite  
> simple.  We have quite a bit of this type of "integration code" in  
> Hibernate already that goes unmaintained for long spurts of time.   
> And truth be told a lot of it deals with DB2 variants and WebSphere  
> which of course makes me a little even more leery here.  So for this  
> aspect we would need you (or someone) to take ownership of this  
> code.  If you agree to that we can discuss those particulars off list.
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> Also realize that the contributions *must* be LGPL.  We have had  
> issues with that previously with regards to IBM employees and IBM's  
> legal teams from LGPL FUD.  To that end, y'all must sign a  
> contributor agreement accepting the terms of LGPL and agreeing to  
> your contributions being made publicly available under its terms.
Just to be clear, this is true of anyone making contributions, not  
just IBM employees.
>
> Also, how many Hibernate users are actually using solidDB?
>
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> On 04/16/2010 10:48 AM, Niall DOWNEY wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> thanks for the info. Is it just a case of checking out the latest  
>> Test
>> Suite code from CVS and running what are probably JUnit tests ?. Is  
>> there
>> anything else we need to do or be aware of ?.
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>> Regards,
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>> Niall
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>> On 04/15/2010 07:39 AM, Niall DOWNEY wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> I work for IBM and we are investigating adding our solidDB dialect  
>>> to the
>>> existing set in Hibernate. Can someone tell me how we go about  
>>> this and
>> who
>>> should we talk to ?.
>>>
>>> Apologies if this is off-topic but it was suggested in the  
>>> "Hibernate
>>> Users" forum that I try posting here.
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>> I'd start by filing a JIRA against Hibernate Core:
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>> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/
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>> Attach your Dialect to the issue.  Run the test suite against your
>> dialect and learn what works and what doesn't.  The best thing we  
>> can do
>> for users of a Dialect is set expectations about known issues.
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>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Chris (who has little/no say in what gets included, just trying to  
>> help)
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