[Qgis-psc] Feed item regarding proposed removal of DB2 provider

[Marco Bernasocchi]

hi Even sorry missed your email. I ll rise this in the next psc. I m trying
to get dwalder to let me have a contact at IBM to ask them for support.

cheers
Marco

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, 23:21 Even Rouault, <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:

> Hi PSC,
>
> any thoughts regarding this ? My call to users on qgis-user list resulted
> in
> ZERO user asking to keep the DB2 provider.
>
> Other data points:
> https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=qgis+db2 results in ZERO match
> compared to
> https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=qgis+oracle in 20, or
> https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=qgis+sql+server in 26
>
> Do you see this provider as a strategic asset for the project ? I'm
> perhaps
> missing context, but the only visible thing is that it seems to be a
> regular
> maintenance burden for the regular QGIS contributors: see
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commits/master/src/providers/db2
>
> If IBM doesn't want/can't support in a convincing way ($$$$$) its
> inclusion in
> QGIS core, then we should strongly "encourage" them (with a firm deadline)
> to
> move it as a plugin, which is definitely the place where such a thing,
> with an
> extremely limited user base, should be.
>
> I've exactly the same thoughts regarding HANA...
>
> Even
>
> > Hi PSC,
> >
> > In https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/204 , I
> propose
> > to remove the DB2 provider. Nyall suggested we publish a news item asking
> > for users feedback.
> >
> > Here's my suggestion for a feed item:
> > "The QGIS project considers removing the DB2 provider in a future
> version.
> > If you have critical need for this provider in your usage of QGIS, please
> > add your feedback to
> > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/204"
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Even
>
>
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