Sam Hughes

There isn't anybody working full time on it. There are some people maintaining drivers, some effort to keep the software working on the newest version of Ubuntu, CentOS, and the...

> What would be needed in terms of funding to get someone to work on it full-time (if anyone is interested at all)? It would depend on the developer, but...

@NetOperatorWibby > Yes, I would like to use RegEx in my queries but I'll survive. RethinkDB has a regex function, could you be more specific? @lonnietc RebirthDB got combined back...

@muratbeser There already is some raised money -- see https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/rethinkdb -- and maybe the project leadership should think about spending it. (Which, to be fair, they have; I ghosted the...

Is it going to be `r.fmt` or `r.format`? I would expect it to support non-string values and use `r.coerceTo('string')`.

> Is it going to be r.fmt or r.format? You wrote format or FORMAT the whole time in the code, which is why I'm asking. I think r.format would be...

We might also want to reserve a character for use in format strings for use in specifying how the data is formatted. C# uses `,` and `:`, while Rust uses...

> In terms of keeping characters for formatting, I would personally prefer the colon approach or percent sign. These two characters are rarely used in document keys -- I hope...

@gabor-boros I am hoping to get FreeBSD-related compilation fixes merged before forking the branches.

Just reminding myself: after we break off the Python/test code changes and merge these, we will want to - [ ] make driver changes - [ ] update the JS...