Category: Developer News

Lele Gaifax calls for testing the new version of Firebird backend for SQLAlchemy. The source is attached to this trac ticket.
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
It provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.

From the Firebird Foundation blog:

The Committee announces that it has approved a new allocation to assist with the work-up and
codebase familiarisation of a “trainee” for Firebird core development.

The new allocation has been assigned to Alex Krutyakov, a highly
skilled C++ developer from Moscow. His work-up will be supervised
directly by our code leader Dmitry Yemanov, for a period of six months.
Dmitry plans to ask Alex to work on several of the new modules for
Firebird 3, including:

• Large Exact Numeric support
• Built-in functions
• Shared-disk clustering research
• External database links

We extend a cordial welcome to Alex Krutyakov, who officially joins the core team on Thursday (Feb. 1st).