Comments on: MySQL End Of Life (EOL) Policy

By: peter

peter — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:13:22 +0000

yingkuan,

We’re in different timezones. I’m in PST Baron is in EST. We have guys in Europe as well. So there is almost all the time somebody working. Though we often have long work days too

By: yingkuan

yingkuan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:41:20 +0000

Thanks Peter and Baron, but seriously how much sleep you guys have every day? You replied 12:59am and Baron 5:45am.
Don’t work too hard for you customers

By: Baron Schwartz

Baron Schwartz — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:45:06 +0000

Last time I checked, 5.1 also contained a number of optimizer bugs that make its performance degrade on queries that run well on 5.0.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:59:50 +0000

yingkuan,

MySQL 5.1 is “close” to GA but the date was moved few times and really GA is just the marketing tag – it is the main question what you would call GA. As I know so far 5.1 contains number of repeatable crash bugs which should not allow it to be called GA under older release guidelines but it is a choice if you want to follow them.

In my experience it takes at least 6 months for “GA” release for people to move – because of waiting, quality assurance etc.

By: yingkuan

yingkuan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:47:37 +0000

5.1 is so close to GA but just not yet.

It’s already three weeks since Zack Urlocker said it’s going to be a couple of more weeks

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/MySQL-51-Open-Source-Database-GA-Date-Approaching/

By: peter

peter — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:20:36 +0000

I just spoke to Jeremy Cole – the ultimate source of freely available MySQL Enterprise Sources and Binaries and he kindly added recent MySQL 4.1 versions to the list:

http://mirror.provenscaling.com/mysql/community/binaries/4.1/