Call for aiopg maintainer

[asvetlov]

The project needs more love. Unfortunately I am and @jettify are overwhelmed by other Open Source projects. I personally sped most spare time on aiohttp issues.

We need a responsible person for monitoring aiopg issues and reviewing pull requests.

I don't want to give up the project support.

The plan is:

• a volunteer's duty is answering on issues and taking careful review.
• all non-trivial changes approved by this guy also require approval from me or @jettify for trial period at least.
• I'm and @jettify are BDFLs for the project

Anybody want to bear the duty?

[1st1]

I'd at least consider deprecating the project in favour of asyncpg.

[DeoLeung]

asyncpg looks fancy but for OLAP application there seems not a strong benefit to move from aiopg considering the engineering cost.

[jettify]

I do not think we are going to deprecate this project, asyncpg looks nice and stuff, but

1. It is different form usual DBAPI spec
2. there are existing projects that relies on it
3. psycopg2 is almost standard postgres driver for python

[tvoinarovskyi]

@jettify What should we do with aiomysq, are you still supporting it? Any alternative out there? I ask cause those are quite similar projects, at least from the API perspective.

[elprans]

@jettify FWIW it should be possible to implement a DBAPI-like facade on top of asyncpg that is fully compatible with aiopg API. The main issue here is the duplication of effort in the asyncio-specific parts and things like the connection pool.

[jettify]

@elprans Agreed it would be nice to have asyncpg as backend.

[vir-mir]

@asvetlov I can try, i also use in work, you can write off in the mail virmir49 gmail

[jettify]

@asvetlov we need more help here so if you do not mind I will add @vir-mir to the the committers. He knows aiopg internals and contributed large PR https://github.com/aio-libs/aiopg/pull/219 it was not merged mostly because lack of time on our part.

[asvetlov]

Agree

[vir-mir]

@jettify what further actions? I do not yet have access.

[jettify]

@vir-mir sent you invitation let me know if you have access (you should be able to merge https://github.com/aio-libs/aiopg/pull/219 ).

Please follow this simple rules:

1. on each change please create pull request
2. each PR should be reviewed and tested
3. if PR is not commented for more than 3-5 days by other maintainers, feel free to merge it
4. be nice and respectful to others :)

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#how-to-become-an-aiohttp-committer

And wellcome to aio-libs team!

[vir-mir]

@jettify Thank you! access is!

[JohnTitor]

@asvetlov @jettify I'm not an expert, but interested in aiopg. I'd like to join.

[webknjaz]

@JohnTitor you could try going through issues and see what you can do

[JohnTitor]

@webknjaz OK, I'll try. Thank you.