Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB
[Posted January 30, 2013 by jake]
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| Michael Scherer <misc-AT-zarb.org> |
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| Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB |
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| Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:10:58 +0100 |
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Le jeudi 24 janvier 2013 à 12:11 -0800, Norvald Ryeng a écrit :
> I'm sorry to hear about the lack of communication. I'm a MySQL
> developer, and for the last year I've been working with different
> packagers. Linux distributions are an important part of our community,
> and we'd like very much to hear your feedback and help make package
> maintainers' lives easier. We've had a really constructive cooperation
> on MySQL with Debian and Ubuntu the last year, and I am hoping we can
> extend that to Fedora and other distributions. Please let me know how I
> can help and be a direct connection to MySQL Engineering, bypassing all
> the FUD currently out there.
So let's take a very narrow and specific example, and see what could you
do after the fact to make packagers life easier.
While working with Remi on a package review[1], I was quite surprised to
see that one Oracle engineer created a internal bug for the inclusion of
a patch from a external community member, to be added to a free software
project. Neither do he care to create proper tarballs, which is
While this is less important than the whole story of missing tests
cases, that's 2 details that should be easy to get right, so are IMHO a
perfect test.
So, in order to show the commitment of your employer toward more
openness and to make the life of packagers easier, let's try to see if
you
- can do what it take to have a private bug become fully public, in this
case, the bug 13956819, which is referred in the review ( ie, the bug
for the inclusion of the patch of Remi )
- can do what it take to actually follow the best practices in term of
software distribution, ie publish proper tarballs for mysql-utilities
( among others )
That should not be hard to do, and a easy way to start creating trust
between you and the community.
What do you think ?
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812099
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