[Mageia-dev] MariaDB 5.5.18 on cauldron tonight

Wed Dec 7 23:21:38 CET 2011

Op woensdag 07 december 2011 23:08:35 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+> I'm perfectly willing to give it a shot (even with my earlier concerns
+> and caveats). Perhaps after alpha2 is a good idea, but I'm not against
+> doing it sooner either for wider testing (the "officialness" of an alpha
+> should mean it gets more testing... in theory!), especially as I doubt
+> it will cause any problems due to the nature of the software and it's
+> sources and who is behind it etc. If there is a problem we resubmit
+> mysql before the beta stage.
+> 
+> 
+> I certainly feel your frustration, (I've been in a similar situation
+> several times!), but try to be pragmatic and understand peoples'
+> concerns/paranoia (once bitten, twice shy and all that!)
+> 
+> Col
+
+i've watched part of a movie after i noticed i was stepping over the line...
+
+my apologies, i've cooled down now.
+
+I do understand the other pov, though i still maintain that the likeliness of 
+problems due to this is fairly low and the willingness of mariadb to get any 
+issues fixed fast is pretty high, the actual progress being done on mariadb is 
+fairly quick, there's a quite a number of developers and i got good contacts 
+with several developers there, who are fairly dedicated to fixing asap any 
+bugs.
+
+if there are problems i'm fairly certain we can get the help from upstream in 
+fixing these fast, but given what i've seen of this 5.5 branch it's unlikely to 
+me if there will be issues. it's sticks pretty close to mysql in order to 
+avoid any sort of issues that might pop up, due to this.
+
+i suspect for them it's more of the issue of managability and any odd 
+decisions from the upper management, and that's why they left mysql; the 
+patches that've always been denied by upper management, etc...
+
+from their pov, they work on mysql like they've always done, except they are 
+free-er to do what they want to do, if they want to accept patches from google 
+of facebook, they can..., if they want to add 3rd party storage engines, they 
+can...
+
+looking at it like this, it's unlikely to be much different than updating from 
+5.5.10 to 5.5.15 rather than updating from mysql to mariadb
+
+well, we'll see what happens next...
+
+AL13N
+