Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Floren Munteanu
Hello, On 2/7/2012 8:04 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: As a member of the security team, I think Oracle's move to a private bug tracker and not publishing details on the security issues is a disaster for Linux distributions attempting to maintain MySQL. I would support moving to a project that sti

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 13:04, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > Oracle's move to a private bug > tracker and not publishing details on the security issues is a disaster > for Linux distributions attempting to maintain MySQL. Guess you'll only be able to maintain MySQL so far before it becomes obsolete. H

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 01:50 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > I'm writing to the greater Debian and Ubuntu community to ask for your > thoughts on a proposal to drop MySQL in favor of MariaDB. Its clear to > me that Oracle is not going to do work in the open, and this will become > a huge support burden

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread jurgen . depicker
> > This will only get harder as the community bug tracker gets further out > of sync with the private one. > > There is some need to consider acting quickly: > ... > > Before I strike out on this path alone, which, I understand, may sound > a bit radical, I want to hear what you all think. >

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 7 Feb 2012, at 17:50, Clint Byrum wrote: > So, here is a suggested plan, given the facts above: > > * Upload mariadb 5.3 to Debian experimental, with it providing > mysql-server, mysql-client, and libmysqlclient-dev. > > * For Ubuntu users, upload these packages to a PPA for testing > ap

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 7 Feb 2012, at 18:26, Chris Manns wrote: > I don't know if this will post but I was working on RHEL approving MariaDB. I > had long discussion with what seemed to be smart folk with RPM packaging on > IRC, I'd need to present it on a mailing list and really find what they > wanted. Not

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Chris Manns
I don't know if this will post but I was working on RHEL approving MariaDB. I had long discussion with what seemed to be smart folk with RPM packaging on IRC, I'd need to present it on a mailing list and really find what they wanted. Not too hard of a path. In my honest opinion having MariaDB and

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 09:50, Clint Byrum wrote: > Well there is a Jenkins to MySQL's Hudson, a LibreOffice to their > OpenOffice. Gee, really?! You promise? Like, really honest?! Man i could've sworn i had never joined a mailing list called maria-discuss! Got anything new and interesting to say

[Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Many of us in the Free and Open Source software community have seen a trend regarding Oracle's stewardship of Open source software that it inherited when it purchased Sun. In particular there were two fairly large public project blow ups that resulted in OpenOffice splintering, and the Hudson commu