[hibernate-dev] Regarding new Dialects

[Brett Meyer]

Hey Vlad, our approach had been to accept new Dialects only if:

 1. Someone or some entity is willing to develop it
 2. Someone or some entity is willing to maintain it *long term*
 3. The community demands it (either through the ML, JIRA votes, noise
    on the forums or externally, etc.)

Too often, Dialects are created and abandoned.  Even worse, a Dialect in 
ORM is used as an advertisement of sorts for the DB vendor.

If they want to create the Dialect, fantastic.  But unless #2 and #3 are 
true, we typically ask that they release the Dialect on their own, 
outside of the core ORM project.

So, the next step would be to create a JIRA, gauge the community need, 
and start a discussion with Altibase to find out if this is a long term 
commitment for them...

On 04/14/2016 04:00 AM, Vlad Mihalcea wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have another Dialect coming as a pull request:
>
> https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/1330
>
> In my opinion, we should integrate new Dialects and just document which
> ones are maintained by us, and which ones are under development by other
> parties.
> For the Altibase database, the Dialect was sent by an Altibase employee, so
> it is their interest to maintain it as well.
>
> Vlad
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