I second Dinesh's sentiment. I'm looking forward to this contribution.
On 2023/05/26 16:29:12 Dinesh Joshi wrote: > This is exciting. Thank you for all your hard work on getting ICLAs from > contributors. I am in favor of moving forward. > > > > > > On May 26, 2023, at 5:54 AM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > To add to a somewhat crowded [DISCUSS] party, I'd like to restart the > > discussion around CEP-8. > > > > > > > > > > This is the original thread from July 2020: > > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/01pljcncyjyo467l5orh8nf9okrh7oxm> > > > > > > > > > > At the time, several good points were discussed and the CEP has been updated > > with many of them. One point in particular was that we should start with > > the DataStax Java driver as it is the reference implementation of the CQL > > protocol, a dependency of the project, and the most used of the 7 drivers > > discussed. Other points were about package naming evolution and DataStax > > specific functionality. I believe everyone agreed that we should take the > > first step of contributing the drivers as-is to minimize user disruption. > > That way we get through the legal and procedural process for the first > > driver. Then we can proceed with discussing how it will be managed and by > > whom. > > > > > > > > > > As the next step in donating the Java driver to the project and as we talked > > about at ApacheCon last year, we needed to verify that we had all of the > > CLAs for all of the codebase. Over the last year, Greg, Benjamin, Mick, > > Josh, Scott, and I have been tracking down all of the contributors of the > > DataStax Java driver that had not signed the DataStax CLA and asked them to > > please sign that one or the ASF CLA. After having discussed the CLAs with > > the PMC and ASF legal, we believe we are ready to proceed. > > > > > > > > > > At this point, we'd like to propose CEP-8 for consideration, starting the > > process to accept the DataStax Java driver as an official ASF project. > > > > > > > > > > [| [CEP-8: Datastax Drivers Donation - CASSANDRA - Apache Software > > Foundation](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-8%3A+Datastax+Drivers+Donation)[cwiki.apache.org](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-8%3A+Datastax+Drivers+Donation)| > > [<favicon.ico>](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-8%3A+Datastax+Drivers+Donation) > > > > ---|--- > > > > ](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-8%3A+Datastax+Drivers+Donation) > > > > > > > > > > Jeremy > >
