Re: OLE DB driver - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: OLE DB driver
Date
Msg-id 200401120817.46248.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: OLE DB driver  (Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz>)
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Chris,

do you have any additional info (email?) on how to contact the original 
project admin?  Is it possible for you to manually set up Shachar as admin on 
the project?  

Robert Treat

On Monday 12 January 2004 04:30, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
> >Can you fill us in on your efforts to contact the original project author?
>
> Sure thing. Here it is:
> The project is located at
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/oledb/projdisplay.php. It has
> released no code, shows no CVS activity, and seems rather empty. There
> are two tasks listed, without any status attached to them. There was one
> bug, which suggests that there used to be some code, but it's in
> "submitted" state, and I'm not sure what it relates to.
>
> The front page says "please email me if you want to join". However, I
> could not locate the email address for "mosiu", the administrator.
> Lastly, I used the form to ask to become a developer of this project
> (about a month ago). I have received no answer of any kind. As such, I
> reached the conclusion that this project is terminally dead, and that
> it's code is unrecoverable.
>
> >  If
> >those efforts have failed and the code is no longer being maintained, we
> > can contact the gborg maintainer about making you the admin for the
> > project.
>
> I would love it if you contacted him, but I don't even have the code for
> the current project. The bug report seems to suggest that such a code
> exists, but I'm damned if I can find it.
>
> > I
> >don't think there is an official policy on this, but this seems like a
> >reasonable request as long as your willing to either update the old code
> > or leave it as it's own seperate module within the cvs tree.
>
> Like I said, there doesn't appear to be any old code to maintain. I have
> requested a new project on gborg (pgoledb), but getting the current name
> is just as good. If the current code is somehow recovered, I'll be more
> than glad to have a look at it. After all - I don't INSIST on writing
> from scratch.
>
> >Robert Treat
>
>              Shachar

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