[VPM] ANNOUNCE: first email forums for QDRDBMS are active

[Darren Duncan]

Hello,

This email concerns an unreleased new Perl DBMS 
module/framework/engine that has separate Perl 5 and Perl 6 versions; 
the Perl 5 version is named QDRDBMS, and serves as a prototype for 
the Perl 6 version, which will have a different name, though the Perl 
5 version is expected to be used soon in production for several 
years.  This is a rewritten successor to my "Rosetta" project, whose 
name won't be used anymore.

QDRDBMS has not yet been released on CPAN, and I don't intend to put 
it there until it is complete enough to support a simple working 
demo, though I hope that will happen some time in February. 
Meanwhile, its various pieces can be seen at 
http://darrenduncan.net/QDRDBMS/ as a work in progress.

QDRDBMS is a self-contained fully-featured RDBMS implemented in Perl, 
a fact  which is strongly emphasized.  (FYI, see also Genezzo on 
CPAN.)  But it has swappable engines (as DBI has swappable drivers), 
and with an appropriate engine substitution, the QDRDBMS API can 
alternately be used as a front for some other DBMS, such as what DBI 
and its wrappers do, and its API can be targeted by other wrappers. 
Or its query language / AST can used as an interchange language.

This email is to let you know that I have gone and created some 
project specific mailing lists, which is where future discussions of 
the project can be focused, and which will be cited in the project 
documentation as official forums.

If you go to http://mm.darrenduncan.net/mailman/listinfo , you can 
see the 3 mailing lists that I created for QDRDBMS.  You can view the 
web archive of existing messages, and subscribe to the list if you 
want to post your own, or get them in your inbox.  These are the 
lists:

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  * qdrdbms-announce at mm.darrenduncan.net

This low-volume list is mainly for official announcements from the
QDRDBMS developers, though developers of QDRDBMS extensions can also
post their announcements here.  This is not a discussion list.

  * qdrdbms-users at mm.darrenduncan.net

This list is for general discussion among people who are using QDRDBMS,
which is not concerned with the implementation of QDRDBMS itself.  This
is the best place to ask for basic help in getting QDRDBMS installed on
your machine or to make it do what you want.  You could also submit
feature requests or report perceived bugs here, if you don't want to
use CPAN's RT system.

  * qdrdbms-devel at mm.darrenduncan.net

This list is for discussion among people who are designing or
implementing the QDRDBMS core API (including QDRDBMS D language
design), or who are implementing QDRDBMS Engines, or who are writing
core documentation, tests, or examples.  It is not the place for
non-implementers to get help in using said.

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(Note: While these lists are run using "mailman", I did turn off the 
feature to send subscribers their password every month, in case that 
was the bane of many.)

If you are interested in QDRDBMS but don't know which list or lists 
are most applicable to you, then perhaps look at the similarly-named 
3 mailing lists for DBI or Bricolage or other projects, especially 
DBI; the above 3 are intended for analagous purposes.  Also like the 
DBI lists, any list member can post to any list, though non-members 
can not post to them.

Note that I anticipate the lists will have no messaging activity for 
the first few weeks, but that should start about when I make my first 
CPAN release of QDRDBMS, expected in about a month or so.

But I am telling you about the lists now, so that when someone wants 
to make a post, there would be a fair number of people in position to 
read it.

Thank you in advance for any interest you may have in QDRDBMS.

-- Darren Duncan