Hi folks,

I am developing a dialect for HiRDB (it is Hitachi's DBMS that is selling only in Japan), and in the end of the day, I would like to contribute it so that HiRDB is counted as one of the supported DBMSs.

I have two questions regarding this:

1. I would like to make the dialect configurable by parameters given from users. What is the most appropriate way to implement it? My suggestion is writing the parameters in hibernate.properties in such a way as "hibernate.dialect.hirdb.enable_experimental_features true" and read it in the dialect through Environment.getProperties(). Isn't it a bad way or bad property naming? (I would like to make this dialect public in the future, I don't like to do anything conflicting the core feature of Hibernate.)

2. How can I contribute it? JIRA does not seem to be an appropriate place to post since this is not an issue.

If the developer mailing list is more appropriate for this kind of discussion, I would be happy to move there.

Thanks,
Tomoto

P.S.
I had another question -- 3. What kind of spreadsheet tools and drawing tools I should use to write the design documents that I submit with the code? I usually use Microsoft Excel and Visio, but I'm afraid that it is not the Hibernate developer's preference.