12. About Sequoia

12.1. License

Sequoia is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache v2 license.

Sequoia is copyrighted by the French National Institute For Research In Computer Science And Control (INRIA) and Continuent.

12.2. Web Site

The Sequoia project is hosted on the Continuent.org web site at the following URL: http://sequoia.continuent.org/. To facilitate the development, a Sequoia project has also be created on the Continuent Forge. This GForge integrates with JIRA for bug tracking.

12.3. Mailing Lists

Two mailing lists are currently available for Sequoia. Both lists are archived for public review at the Sequoia's Web site.

  • is the user mailing list. It is the source to get the latest information about Sequoia, send your feedback and get support from the Sequoia community.

  • is a developer mailing list that reports every commit in the Sequoia CVS repository.

Feedback is crucial to improve Sequoia. Please send us your comments or any other form of input to: .

12.4. Reporting a Bug

JIRA provides support for bug tracking. We strongly encourage you to use the automatic Report feature (see Section 7.3.3, “Report”) that provides all the details we usually need to figure out what happened. If you cannot use this feature, please include the following information when reporting a bug (when applicable):

  • The Sequoia driver and controller version.

  • The XML file you used to configure the Sequoia controller.

  • JDK vendor and version (example: Sun JDK 1.4.2_08). If you use different JDK for driver and controller, please give as much detail as possible.

  • OS vendor and version (examples: Linux 2.6.12 or Windows XP® SP2). If you use different operating systems for clients, controllers and backends, give the appropriate information.

  • Database backend version and driver (example: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 Linux with JDBC driver postgresql-8.0-312.jdbc3.jar).

  • Detailed error description with possibly the exception stack trace or a logging trace with debugging enabled.

12.5. Getting Involved

Sequoia is an open source project and welcomes external contributions. Please read the Sequoia Developer's Guide and join us!

Basically, any feature you need but you do not find implemented in Sequoia may become a contribution topic. Simply send your ideas, documents and developments (if any) to the mailing list. Available tasks and the roadmap is available on JIRA. Please use also this tool for feature requests and bug reports/fixes.

You can finally subscribe to the sequoia-commits mailing list if you want to receive notifications of the CVS changes.

12.6. About Continuent.org

Continuent.org Continuent.org is an open source portal and community dedicated to high availability and scalability services for databases and other closely related technologies. Continuent.org is sponsored by Continuent.

12.7. About INRIA

INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. The Sardes project at INRIA Rhones-Alpes has defined the RAIDb concept and developed C-JDBC. Sequoia is a continuation of the C-JDBC project.

12.8. About ObjectWeb

The goal of the ObjectWeb Consortium is the development of open source distributed middleware, in the form of adaptable and flexible components. ObjectWeb components range from specific software frameworks and protocols to integrated platforms. More information on ObjectWeb and its projects is available at the ObjectWeb's Web site.