Dear Shindig Community, Id like to bring our contribution regarding a proper database backend for Apache Shindig to your attention.
As some of you might know, we already posted an initial patch over a year ago. It turned out, that it was not feasible to include this in Shindig due to licensing issues that we were not aware of before. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-1911 A few months later we asked via the mailing list, whether you would be still interested in getting a patch which circumvents these issues and I received positive feedback from you. 4 months ago, we posted a new version of the patch which sorted out the licensing issues and had some other significant enhancements regarding multi-threading, multiple concurrent connections and things like that, that make it ready for larger installations with multiple db servers. https://reviews.apache.org/r/9773/ Initially, Ryan Baxter gave us some good hints regarding minor issues with documentation and installation. Weve sorted them out, but during the last three months there were no visible efforts from the Shindig-side to really bring this patch into the main code. We are still committed to support and further enhance it, so if there are reasonable issues, please let us know. Id like to communicate my frustration and disappointment about the procedure. I dont know the reasons for the way this issue is handled and Im sure you all have important things to do, but I cant imagine how any open source project can work that simply ignores contributions worth several person months of work. Please give this patch a fair chance. Regards René Prof. Dr. René Peinl Teaching area: architecture of Web applications Hof University Alfons-Goppel-Platz 1 95028 Hof Germany Tel: +49 9281 409-4820 mailto: <mailto:rene.pe...@hof-university.de> rene.pe...@hof-university.de
