Re: Status update?

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Bill Williams said the following on 5/19/2006 2:38 PM:
> It's been nearly a year since we've heard about the status of MyODBC
> 3.51.xx and MyODBC 5. Could you please post some sort of roadmap to the
> ODBC list and forum, no matter how general it may be. A lot of
> developers are expressing their frustration with the current driver vs.
> MySQL Server 4.1.xx and 5.0.xx.
> 
> With MySQL Server 5.1 around the corner, it would be nice to know if we
> will see a stable MyODBC 5 that supports all the features Server 5 has
> to offer.
> 
> Thanks in advance


Bill, David and the rest of our ODBC user community,

First, let me apologize in advance, as I realize we haven't kept the
information flowing as much as we should.

We're on the cusp of another Connector/ODBC 5.0 release (honest, check
the commit messages at http://lists.mysql.com/commits). What we really
need from the community is testing, as we didn't get a lot of people
trying out the first alpha of 5.0, so we got basically zero feedback.

The more community testing we get of this release, the sooner we can
release fixes to it, ideally every week/two weeks or so until it becomes
stable.

In my heart-of-hearts, I'm hoping to have this all cleaned up by mid-summer.

Peter's been working on this release solid for the past two months. I've
also finally been given the go-ahead to hire one more developer to work
on ODBC in tandem with Peter. Our plan is to have this developer work on
the backlog of bugs in 3.51, as well as helping out with any new bugs
that that arrise with Connector/ODBC 5.0.

What we could really use from the community is the following:

(1) Testing of 5.0 releases, and testing of releases with fixes.

(2) Feedback on what bugs are most important to you. Unfortunately, we
don't have a really granular bug priority system, so I'd like to ask the
community what bugs are most painful for them to deal with (David I have
your list already). We have some good ideas on which ones are
large-impact, but some we might be missing.

(3) If you, or someone you know would be interested in working for MySQL
on our ODBC driver, please let me know.

What we promise in return:

* Connector/ODBC 5.0 released as soon as possible, at a quality level
that makes it usable for all of you that supports prepared statements,
views and stored procedures.

* Bugs fixed in 3.51 in an order that make sense, and solves the largest
problems first.

* Much more interaction with the community at large (it's actually a
quarterly goal for the entire team). Feel free to yell at me if you
don't see us on this mailing list or the forums enough.

        -Mark





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