introduction and contribution proposal

[Rick Hillegas]

Hello Calcite community,

My name is Rick Hillegas. I am a Derby committer and a former VP of the 
Apache DB project. For ten-plus years, I worked at Sun/Oracle, where I 
served as an alternate delegate to the INCITS SQL committee. Currently, 
I work at a company called SQLstream, which some of you know well.

I would like to start contributing to Calcite by improving Calcite's 
integration with Derby. That is, I would like to make Derby as well 
integrated with Calcite as h2, hsqldb, MySQL, and PostgreSQL are. I 
noticed the following: although Derby is already a supported 
org.apache.calcite.sql.SqlDialect, Derby does not appear in the list of 
databases exercised by Calcite tests (see 
https://calcite.apache.org/docs/howto.html#running-tests).

Would this contribution be welcome? If so, I can open a Calcite JIRA 
issue to track this effort--or take whatever next steps you think are 
appropriate.

Thanks,
-Rick