Join forces

[peta]

Hello everybody,

quite some time passed since the last changes to redis-natives-py. To be honest, Python hasn't been a substantial part of my language stack for the last two yrs or so (and I believe that it will neither in the near future), that's why I didn't come up with new changes/additions/fixes to redis-natives-py by myself.

But the project network graph shows that there are several forks that diverged with several commits that seem to be worth being integrated back into the main repository. (Especially @kvesteri commited a bunch of changes.)

Redis and the equally named Python client module have changed over the time and are supposed to do so in the near future. In order to keep redis-natives-py up to date and thus also useful for other python devs, I had the idea to join forces. What do you think about becoming maintainers to the official redis-natives-py repository, so that you can work directly on the sources and have full control?

Another question is, whether you are still using redis-natives-py and if you still consider it being useful and worth enough maintining it. Does anybody have experience about how it works with Python3?

I'd be glad to hear from you.

Peter

[kvesteri]

Our company (www.fastmonkeys.com) is using python only and we have currently one major project where we are using redis-natives-py. I really like the idea behind the API and think this project is very useful. If possible I could take a maintainer role.

[peta]

@kvesteri Very cool. Welcome in the club! ;-)

[kvesteri]

Couple of things I've done in my fork are:

• Tests for all datatypes
• All complex operations (for example symmetric difference etc) done in redis side instead of python side (much more efficient)
• Variables named in more pythonic way (for example redis_keys instead of redisKeys)
• Fixed lots of bugs in all datatypes

If you think these changes are good we good start by merging them?

[peta]

@kvesteri I've seen your commits. That was the actual reason I came up with this idea ... would've been a pity when the main repository didn't include these. (and the contributions of other forks also)

I just added you to the list of project maintainers. Would you please check if you have sufficient access privileges to the project? (write access to git, being able to edit issues asf.)