bchavez
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6 years ago Hi @thelinuxlich,
Thank you for the invitation. We'll definitely take you up on the offer when the time is right for us. Currently, there are a few concerns I have:
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This driver operates under a dual-license. There's a commercial component that keeps me involved in maintaining and developing this driver. You can read more about it here and here. So, I'm not sure how well that licensing model will jibe with the new RebirthDB fork community since this driver is not "truly" open source in the sense of a pure MIT or Apache license.
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There's a lot of planning and preparation going on for the C# driver's 2.4 release. This includes a total re-write of the driver's internal networking code that leverages new framework primitives that Microsoft has recently released in .NET. The new framework primitives promise some huge gains in performance and memory management. So, moving to a new repo in the middle of this process would complicate things.
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There's a lot of NuGet / Google / GitHub link juice to this repo. Also, I draw much feedback from the 27 watchers in the repo who are in varying degrees interested in the future of this driver. These people and their opinions are important to me.
A plan forward to supporting RebirthDB with C# and .NET:
I'm not against the fork. In fact, we can advertise that we're compatible with RebirthDB if it helps adoption of the fork provided the protocols remain somewhat similar. I'll do my best to support RebirthDB where I can. However, if the maintenance costs to support both databases increase significantly and the protocols begin to diverge between RethinkDB and RebirthDB then that might be the best time to fork the C# driver into a dedicated repository. Ultimately, though, I think it will come down to demand.
So, those are my thoughts. I hope they make some sense. Also, thank you for thinking :thought_balloon: of us! :+1:
Thanks, Brian
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Hey bchavez! We've forked RethinkDB to release a 2.4 version and all drivers will have separate repositories under our organization, discussion here: https://spectrum.chat/rebirthdb
So I'm inviting you to join us, there you can have more visibility for your project, what do you think?