Bump! Any interest? Julian
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > DB group, > > I am exploring the possibility of making sqlline an Apache DB sub-project. > > Sqlline is a JDBC shell along the lines of Oracle's SQL*Plus and > Derby's ij, but it is generic: it works with any JDBC driver. It was > founded about 10 years ago, and was forked (without malice) into Hive > as beeline and into my github project > https://github.com/julianhyde/sqlline. Both forks have seen reasonable > use (Hive's by the Hive community, and mine by Drill, Phoenix, > Cascading among others), ongoing development activity, and regular > releases. > > I am currently undertaking the painful task of "un-forking" -- > producing a development line that contains the union of all patches, > without unnecessary dependencies such as Hive. The Hive-dependent > pieces of beeline would remain in sub-classes in beeline. See > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6361 for details. For > pragmatic reasons, I will be un-forking into a new Hive module, > org.apache.hive.sqlline. > > But there is a concern that the project will over time become too > dependent on Hive. Even if we commit to not introduce dependencies, > perception is reality. Also, project development would have to occur > on Hive's (very busy) dev list, and, pragmatically, its releases would > have to be synchronized with Hive's releases. > > As a sub-project of DB, sqlline could continue to be developed in the > Apache way but with more room to breathe. > > Do you think sqlline would be a good fit as a DB sub-project? > > Julian
