[Bese-devel] Re: Need informations about the different projects

[Ian Eslick]

Thanks for the vote of confidence!  I've been using Elephant heavily in
my research and added a bunch of features to make common operations
easy.  As a result I got sucked into being a virtual maintainer,
although Robert Read is the lead maintainer and enforces testing and
compatibility hygiene.  We would really like to see Elephant and
Rucksack, the two free active true persistent object solutions make it
into mainstream use so anything I can do to support new users I'm up for.

We have a rough release plan for the next year in the TODO file,
although the timing is dependent on the available free time.  We welcome
other people's contributions, suggestions, patches.  We're especially
interested in people looking to do small projects to improve the code
base.  I have a long list of such things. 

Currently we're working up to an incremental release (0.6.1) to improve
stability.  After that we're focusing on serializer performance and
perhaps some additions to cleanly integrate prevalence-like or
managed-object functionality so you can get in-memory performance with
write-through persistence.  I'd also like to adapt some of the
infrastructure in Rucksack to do a native Elephant backend.  The two
systems make very different commitments to supporting persistente and I
think there's plenty of room for both.  Elephant is the more mature
system today, however.  Rucksack isn't ready for production use yet. 

On my own system I have a several gigabyte database that's been up for
several months on which I regularly do thousands of transactions per
minute.  Berkeley DB isn't the best system in the world, but I think
we've got rid of most of the inconveniences.

We only get a little annoyed when people request complex features and
then don't show up to test them when they're done.  :)

Let me know if you need help getting started,
Ian

Ties Stuij wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 16:27, Ties Stuij wrote:
>> > I've hooked it up with elephant for object persistance
>> Last time I checked Elephant it was totally unmaintained and it
>> didn't even
>> work. I talked with some guy with the typical floating-patches nobody
>> would
>> apply. Has that changed ?
>
> Yes very much. check the site. In the last couple of months two guys
> have been working quite heavily on it. Mainly Ian Eslick at the moment
> i think. They almost get annoyed when nobody responds on their request
> for testing their new releases. They're quite helpful also.
>
> Greets,
> Ties
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