RE: Contributing to C# implementation

[Alexey Orlov <al...@microsoft.com>]

Hello to all. I'm afraid I need to ask for help again. As suggested I have created a JIRA issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1625 about contributing C# library created by Microsoft to the project. The issue is almost 4 weeks old now and seems to be completely "dead". (I understand there was a holiday season, but it's supposed to be well over now).

What is supposed to happen? Should I take it, that no comments in the issue means there is no interest? Or should I make any particular steps. (Like I said before I'm very new to Apache procedures, so I may be missing some elementary and obvious thing)

So, what I should do to revive the discussion and push it forward. And more general where could I read about the case like mine, i.e. when someone would like to contribute a whole new implementation rather than contributing to existing code?

Thank you a lot,
Alexey

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Orlov [mailto:alexeyo@microsoft.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 7:08 PM
To: dev@avro.apache.org
Subject: RE: Contributing to C# implementation

Thank you!
The issue is created.
Alexey

-----Original Message-----
From: niels@basj.es [mailto:niels@basj.es] On Behalf Of Niels Basjes
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:48 PM
To: dev@avro.apache.org
Subject: Re: Contributing to C# implementation

Hi,

I would simply make it a "New Feature" as it is a completely new language and leave the priority to the default value.

Niels Basjes

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Alexey Orlov <al...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hello again to everybody.
>
> To save reading the entire thread here is a quick summary:
>
> I'm a Microsoft employee. Inside Microsoft we have created a C# 
> implementation of Avro which we believe could be a valuable 
> contribution to the project. The library is currently available at 
> https://hadoopsdk.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Avro%20Library
>
> Doug below suggested opening an issue in Jira to start the discussion 
> on this. Now I need to confess that I'm quite new to the ASF Jira 
> setup, so I would like to open it in the right way.
>
> Thus two questions:
>
> 1) Issue type for such discussion? (Improvement/New feature/Wish)
> 2) Suggested priority?
>
> And Merry Christmas to all!
>
> Thank you,
> Alexey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Orlov [mailto:alexeyo@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 2:25 PM
> To: dev@avro.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Contributing to C# implementation
>
> Doug, thank you, I will make the final check with my legal people and 
> open the case.
>
> Now about dependency on Windows. The main purpose of the library was 
> to enable people with .NET applications to effectively use Avro. Thus 
> it was natural that we were relying on Microsoft implementation of 
> .NET Framework while creating the library. However we did NOT utilize 
> anything "exotic", that would prevent the library to be compiled vs, 
> e.g., Mono. Note though we never tested such cases (see the main 
> motivation of creating the library).
>
> If anybody from the community would like to try this out, the complete 
> code is available (see my initial post).
>
> Thank you,
> Alexey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Cutting [mailto:cutting@apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:51 PM
> To: dev@avro.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Contributing to C# implementation
>
> Alexey,
>
> This would be a great contribution to Apache Avro.  I suggest opening 
> an issue in Jira to discuss this.
>
> The Microsoft implementation of Avro appears only to build on Windows, 
> unlike other implementations which mostly build on multiple platforms.
>  Is the dependency on Windows deep, or is it only in the build?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Alexey Orlov <al...@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a Program Manager working in Microsoft and responsible for C# 
> > implementation of Avro, that we have recently made public as 
> > Microsoft Avro Library. The code, binaries and docs are available here:
> > https://hadoopsdk.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Avro%20Library&referri
> > ng
> > Title=Home
> >
> > Now we would like to start a conversation related to contributing 
> > the
> library to the project. Would be thankful for help.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Alexey
>



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Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,

Niels Basjes