Excellent, thanks for the quick mail follow up Stefan!
Indeed, no rush time-wise, there are 6 months ahead.

Cheers
Andrea

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:59 AM Uhrig, Stefan <stefan.uh...@sap.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up!
>
>
>
> I will prepare a pull request to enable online tests for the SAP HANA data
> store. It might take some weeks until it’s done, but I think it will be
> done long before September 2022.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
> *From:* Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 15, 2022 7:36 PM
> *To:* Uhrig, Stefan <stefan.uh...@sap.com>; Geotools-Devel list <
> geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Subject:* Automated tests for GeoTools SAP HANA store
>
>
>
> Hi Stefan (hello GT developers!),
>
> I'm contacting you about the GeoTools SAP HANA data store, because you're
> the developer
>
> that did (from the commits I see at least) most of the work on it.
>
>
>
> In GeoTools we are discussing dropping down to unsupported any data store
> that:
>
>    - Requires online testing
>    - Does not have online tests for it running in Github actions
>
> The rationale is simple: we keep on making changes to GeoTools and we have
> no idea
>
> if those stores are bit-rotting because of them. If a change breaks a
> stores, we want
>
> to know right away.
>
>
>
> Currently, most JDBC stores have a Github action workflow testing them:
>
> https://github.com/geotools/geotools/tree/main/.github/workflows
> <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgeotools%2Fgeotools%2Ftree%2Fmain%2F.github%2Fworkflows&data=04%7C01%7Cstefan.uhrig%40sap.com%7Cbe03c4c5bb704e6fa85608d9f0b216a3%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C637805469936852787%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=APW3%2BmndmiwJ2AL%2FR0MdOy3%2FzNDDcIZLnuizoHof1rg%3D&reserved=0>
>
>
>
> The two that do not are Teradata and HANA.
>
>
>
> Teradata is going to be immediately pushed down to unsupported because it
> has not
>
> received new commits in a long while, and people that maintained it are
> gone: it looks
>
> dead for all intents and purposes.
>
>
>
> HANA seems to be more active and we have someone to contact instead (hence
> this mail).
>
> You don't need to add a Github workflow right now, we decided to
> re-evaluate the
>
> HANA position is six months so ... plenty of time, no rush.
>
>
>
> If in September 2022 we'll find the module has no builds running its
> tests, then
>
> we'll demote the module to unsupported status.
>
> Hope you'll understand.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
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