Hi,
I am the software engineer (jepickett) who brought MSOpenTech Redis from the unstable 2.4/2.6 versions to the much better 2.8/3.0 releases. I have been out of the loop doing other things, while two very capable engineers have donned the mantle and carried Redis on Windows(RoW) forward. I am looking at the current state of the porting effort, and I am wondering if I should step in and do more.
When MSOpenTech was reabsorbed into Microsoft there was an internal commitment to continue the funding of Redis for a while. I don’t know if that commitment has been reached or not, but the lack of recent progress on the RoW port is concerning. The 3.0 version is getting seriously out of date, and I see no indication that there will be a Redis 4.0 port any time soon. Microsoft’s support has been essential to getting RoW to its current state. Without some sort of ongoing support, RoW will die on the vine. I don’t want to see that happen.
I don’t have all the answers here, but I have a few thoughts:
1. Perhaps by changing the support model to something less corporate and more organic, the development of RoW can be more sustainable.
2. Maybe this doesn’t have to be a full time development effort if the community gets to vote on what it values.
3. If I built RoW to pitch patronage (via Patreon, or something else) at every startup, maybe I could build a support network without turning Redis into a crappy piece of adware.
Before I commit to going down this road, I need your feedback.