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Dear MariaDB community,
I'm the original creator (many years ago) and still active maintainer of https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j, a project which refuses to die 
and on the contrary keeps getting end-user developer interest with issues, pull requests from strangers, etc.
The MariaDB community and the MariaDB4j project have previously had some (very light) touch points e.g. in CONJ-87 and MDEV-16836 and I believe occasionally over on Stack Overflow.
In the context https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j/issues/213 (read the linked issues and my blog post...) and https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j/issues/238, I was wondering whether you would have any interest / be willing to accept a move https://github.com/vorburger/MariaDB4j/ to under https://github.com/MariaDB/ ?
I would have no expectations of any "work" or active contributions from any of you. I would commit to continuing to engage on "my" project as I have for the past years when I can (in some periods more actively than others) - I'm not trying to "dump" this on you. Of course I would very much welcome contributions from existing MariaDB committers, I'm guess notably people working on mariadb-connector-j, as from anyone outside - but I'm not proposing this move expecting a sudden avalanche of PRs. I would be happy to promote anyone who has made a notable number of useful contributions as an additional commiter. (I would expect to be the initial committer privilege on the moved repo.)
For the record: MariaDB4j is a personal home project, always has been and always will be, and is in no way "endorsed" or supported by (or whatever else anyone may think) by where I (currently) work, which happens to be a very large professional open source company.
It's just a suggestion for discussion - I'm open to whatever the outcome!
Best,
M.
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Hello! It's been a while. Sorry for my, erm... 2.5 years silence here? 
Are you guys still up for this?
I can see that I have the permission to move repos under https://github.com/MariaDB/ now, but I'm still slightly reluctant to actually click move... what if I loose access?! #paranoia
Do you mind if I temporarily create and move some empty test repo to explore this? Would that be cool, and not cause too much confusion?
PS: Do you guys hang out on some chat room? Some Slack or IRC - or whatever you use.
BTW A sort of related possible future issue here would be Java package "namespacing", and the Maven Central release stuff.
MariaDB4j is currently `package ch.vorburger.mariadb4j` and on https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ch/vorburger/mariaDB4j/
If we do indeed go ahead here, do I "have" to, do you "need" me to move the package? It would make my next "mvn deploy" more... involved. Or can I just keep it as-is?
Great to hear from you. No worries, we can still look into this. If it makes you more comfortable, we can do the process live. I take it you're in one of Europe's timezones so it shouldn't be too hard to find a convenient time. We can also do a test-repo first. We can easily drop the repo afterwards.
I'm not familiar with the Java ecosystem enough to offer a good enough answer atm for the "ch.vorburger.mariadb4j" issue. Our usuall approach is to favor backwards-compatibility if possible, but it would be ideal if we can have "org.mariadb.mariadb4j" as part of the name space. I'll educate myself a bit on this and we can decide how best to approach this and not cause users too much pain.
You can find us on: https://mariadb.zulipchat.com/. And if it helps put your mind at ease we can also do a video call at some point.
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