Wow, that is an overwhelming support, thank everyone who has expressed the 
feedback. Considering that this is a huge contribution, I think that we should 
also have a formal VOTE thread that will server as a record of our decision. 
Would you mind starting it, David?

Jarcec

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:04:14AM +1100, Ramkumar G wrote:
> +1 
> 
> This is great!
> 
> 
> 
> > On 24 Jan 2014, at 8:07 am, Kathleen Ting <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > This is great news! I have been enthusiastically recommending OraOop
> > to all of my customers. Many thanks to David, Dell, and team for their
> > extensive development and support of OraOop. Would love to see OraOop
> > officially part of Apache Sqoop.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kate
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Venkat Ranganathan
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> +1.  It is nice to see this donated to ASF and made part of Sqoop.
> >> 
> >> Venkat
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho 
> >> <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi David,
> >>> I'm super excited to see this. I've personally used the OraOop connector
> >>> several times and I'm recommending it to every user that is having
> >>> difficulties or performance issues with the built-in one. I'm definitely 
> >>> in
> >>> favour of the proposal!
> >>> 
> >>> Jarcec
> >>> 
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:37:13PM +0000, David Robson wrote:
> >>>> Hi Sqoop Developers,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I work for Dell Software (formerly Quest Software) where we developed a
> >>> high performance connector for Oracle and Sqoop. As you may know the
> >>> current Oracle connector in Sqoop suffers various performance problems -
> >>> our connector aimed to solve that. It has been very successful and a lot 
> >>> of
> >>> people are using it in favour of the default connector.
> >>>> 
> >>>> We have decided it would be great if all Sqoop users could get these
> >>> benefits and not just the ones who download the connector. It will also
> >>> make it a lot easier for people if they don't have to get it separately 
> >>> and
> >>> it just works.
> >>>> 
> >>>> To achieve this we have decided to donate the connector to the Apache
> >>> Software Foundation and incorporate it into the Sqoop code base. I believe
> >>> this will have great benefits for all Sqoop users who connect to Oracle.
> >>>> 
> >>>> You can see the current code for the Oracle Connector here:
> >>> https://github.com/QuestSoftwareTCD/OracleSQOOPconnector
> >>>> 
> >>>> Can you please let us know your thoughts on this.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> 
> >>>> David Robson
> >>> 
> >> 
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