February 10, 2012

MySQL Community contrubutions

I’ve just read post http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=123 about MySQL plans of including community contributions into releases. I understand MySQL’s interest to make releases stable, and includes contributions only into development tree, but this is not something I would like to see. Look, MySQL 5.0 was shipped as production on 19 October 2005. Since almost 2 years there [...]

New MySQL Community Release Policies published

Yesterday Kaj Published changes to MySQL Community Release Policies. I knew about them a bit in advance but now they are public I can comment a bit. In general I’m disappointed and think this is moving in the wrong direction, it also makes me to think hard if MySQL is out of more creative solutions [...]