The ENGINE = CONNECT TABLE_TYPE=ODBC has become a Critical Engine in most of my MariaDB ETL Workloads, and I consider it an excellent engine which:

• We shall give as much continuity in time as possible.
• And prevent it becomes sometime in the future a project which is no longer maintained (As Cassandra, Federated, ... MariaDB Engines).

Therefore, and as a matter of fact, I would suggest that its non-compiled Code is put in Github MariaDB Foundation Webpage, in order all of us can collaborate in the future development of the engine, and make it even greater:

MariaDB Foundation Github Webpage

This would enable us, definitely, to propose patches (Pull Requests) and help in the maintenance of the ha_connect C++ Code ourselves, and not only ask for help to the maintainers.

I also attach:

• The Connect Engine Documentation I found on the Internet (1MB), which would also be nice to put into the repository itself into a "docs" folder (And ignored by .gitignore).
• Git Cheatsheet.
• Git Repository Manager