Hi Jani, Thanks so much for sticking your hand up to help maintain Oracle! It is an important part of our ecosystem.
Marc On 19 August 2015 at 07:45, Josh Smeaton <josh.smea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll also stick my hand up to be involved with the Oracle backend, but not > the Oracle GIS backend. I don't have a lot of time available at the moment, > but I'll be able to support Jani and anyone else that's interested in > maintaining the backend. > > Cheers > > On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:36:23 UTC+10, Jani Tiainen wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm volunteering myself to maintain both Oracle and Oracle GIS backends. >> >> I've been developing applications based on Oracle for almost 20 years now >> and I've been maintaining Oracle installations and databases. >> >> I've been developing with Django and it's GIS parts with almost 10 years >> now. I've previously contributed few very trivial patches and I've regulary >> keep answering questions on #django and hanging around in #django-dev with >> nick "jtiai". >> >> >> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:12:17 -0700 (PDT) >> Tim Graham <timog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I've drafted a blog post to advertise our need for Oracle expertise. >> Please >> > take a look and give feedback before it's published. Thanks! >> > >> > Django team seeks help maintaining Oracle and Oracle GIS backends >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > >> > Several members of the Django team that have previously provided Oracle >> > expertise no longer work with Oracle in their day jobs, and therefore, >> the >> > team >> > is seeking new contributors who have an ongoing interest in the >> backend. >> > >> > Ideally, the team seeks to move the Oracle backend from "built-in" >> status, >> > to a pip >> > installable backend that would be maintained under the "django" GitHub >> > account. >> > Your duties would include monitoring a build that runs with Django >> master >> > and the >> > latest version of the Oracle backend and fixing any issues that arise. >> To >> > help with >> > the continuous integration infrastructure, knowledge of maintaining >> Oracle >> > servers >> > would also be a plus, but these duties could be split among several >> people. >> > Please >> > introduce yourself on the `django-developers mailing list`_ if this is >> > something you >> > are interested in. >> > >> > Also, the Oracle GIS backend has been broken for several months and >> > no one has answered `requests for help`_ on the django-developers and >> > geodjango mailing lists. If no one helps out, this backend will be >> dropped >> > in >> > Django 1.9. This is the least used backend according to the `Django >> > Developers >> > Community Survey`_, receiving 5 votes out of more than 3,000 responses. >> > >> > .. _django-developers mailing list: >> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-developers >> > .. _requests for help: >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/2ritQ26PRLI/discussion >> > .. _Django Developers Community Survey: >> > >> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Owv-Y_beohyCm9o2xPamdBnvjreNYoWai3rDloKZxWw/viewanalytics#start=publishanalytics >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to django-d...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/68c78921-001d-4171-bdd7-541f048734bc%40googlegroups.com. >> >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> Jani Tiainen >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/f0c8315b-7e0f-4b0b-9223-09f4d6589d76%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/f0c8315b-7e0f-4b0b-9223-09f4d6589d76%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. 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