To add to a somewhat crowded [DISCUSS] party, I'd like to restart the discussion around CEP-8.
This is the original thread from July 2020: https://lists.apache.org/thread/01pljcncyjyo467l5orh8nf9okrh7oxm At the time, several good points were discussed and the CEP has been updated with many of them. One point in particular was that we should start with the DataStax Java driver as it is the reference implementation of the CQL protocol, a dependency of the project, and the most used of the 7 drivers discussed. Other points were about package naming evolution and DataStax specific functionality. I believe everyone agreed that we should take the first step of contributing the drivers as-is to minimize user disruption. That way we get through the legal and procedural process for the first driver. Then we can proceed with discussing how it will be managed and by whom. As the next step in donating the Java driver to the project and as we talked about at ApacheCon last year, we needed to verify that we had all of the CLAs for all of the codebase. Over the last year, Greg, Benjamin, Mick, Josh, Scott, and I have been tracking down all of the contributors of the DataStax Java driver that had not signed the DataStax CLA and asked them to please sign that one or the ASF CLA. After having discussed the CLAs with the PMC and ASF legal, we believe we are ready to proceed. At this point, we'd like to propose CEP-8 for consideration, starting the process to accept the DataStax Java driver as an official ASF project. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/CEP-8%3A+Datastax+Drivers+Donation Jeremy
