Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-11-03 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi, For some reason most messages on this list get blocked by spam filters so replying based on what I read at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2024-October/043165.html from Mohamed: > Hello all, > > I am the product manager of relational databases at Canonical. > I want to highligh

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-10-30 Thread Mohamed Wadie NSIRI
Hello all, I am the product manager of relational databases at Canonical. I want to highlight that our aim is to continue supporting whatever databases our Ubuntu users are using. According to various surveys and popularity indexes, both MySQL and MariaDB continue to be very popular among IT pr

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-28 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! .. > Did you see this reply from Lena, which was waiting for input? > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2024-September/043133.html Indeed, this, for some reason, didn't get past spam filters.. Replying now: > * The term "default" could refer to a number of things when it come

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Otto, On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 09:59:46PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > Should I maybe re-post this on some other mailing list or on > https://discourse.ubuntu.com/? Did you see this reply from Lena, which was waiting for input? https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2024-Sept

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-27 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! Should I maybe re-post this on some other mailing list or on https://discourse.ubuntu.com/? I did notice there was some people commenting the topic in the news article https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Maybe-MariaDB, which in turn was mentioned in https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubunt

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-25 Thread lena . voytek
Hi Otto, Thank you for bringing your ideas to this list, and for your excellent and sustained maintenance of MariaDB in Ubuntu over many years! In order to provide full context, I will direct most of this reply to a general audience. As such I'll introduce myself: I am the maintainer for MySQL i

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-20 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 7:36 PM Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Hi Ubuntu devs, > > The MariaDB Server, a fork of MySQL created in response to it being > acquired by Oracle, has been the default MySQL variant in Debian since > 2016. Starting from Debian 9 "Stretch" in 2017, MariaDB has been the > only

Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-19 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi Ubuntu devs, The MariaDB Server, a fork of MySQL created in response to it being acquired by Oracle, has been the default MySQL variant in Debian since 2016. Starting from Debian 9 "Stretch" in 2017, MariaDB has been the only MySQL variant in stable Debian releases. The situation has been simil