Yesterday Kaj Published changes to MySQL Community Release Policies. I knew about them a bit in advance but now … of relationships with Linux Distributions. As Kaj writes 4 Yearly Source Released of Community Version is targeted to be used by distributions… inside the company between old fashined true Open Source ideals and new management for which is Open Source is new fashion and a vehicle…
Post: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
May 21, 2009 By 28 Comments
… of true community Open Source development – you’ve got to give up on making a big splash. Traditional close source company often develop… obsessed with “everything Google does must be great” policies which prevents them from releasing code before it is complete and properly tested…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.0.4 released
March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
…, and mailing list on the toolkit homepage. Percona Toolkit is open-source and free, but we recommend a support contract, which entitles… the 2.0.3 release, which included complete rewrites of some tools, it was obvious that our policy of including both bug fixes and major changes into the same release was too confusing. This new release model should…
Post: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.
November 18, 2011 By 6 Comments
… went in as release in some of distributions. As many people use MySQL releases which come … I need your feedback so we can understand what policies would make sense for our builds and … with Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup and other Open Source software Percona develops. I would appreciate your …
Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 2, 2008 By 34 Comments
…release policies as well (many people do!), but those issues generally revolve around the community editions getting *more stable* releases…people from grabbing the source and building their own releases though – you guys …struggling the opposite way, trying to open things more (though this takes time…
Post: MySQL and IBM
April 6, 2009 By 17 Comments
… this is outcome of 2-year old press release “MySQL AB and IBM Announce Open Source Database Support for the IBM System i Platform”, it just took a bit a while to put it into source tree. I wonder what happened with policy not accept significant changes into production release.
Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 14, 2008 By 34 Comments
…… 1. This is not how Open Source works. OSS projects don’t hide binaries from the community …MySQL is OSS. At best it’s source under glass. (unless this policy radically changes while at Sun). 2. The…no confidence in MySQL/Sun’s management of MySQL releases. I don’t want to run stale versions of…
Comment: New MySQL Community Release Policies published
August 9, 2007 By 9 Comments
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Post: MySQL - to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
… users need other features than MySQL adding in newer MySQL releases. In other cases I can see people using for example… because of their internal policies and state of mind, but this may not have yet adapted to open source software world, at least…
Post: Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL
October 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
…? This is actually important — it will open up a range of new choices … up being a very expensive insurance policy for the customer. Our pricing is… quote from 37signals in our press release says it best. When 37signals called …than expected. They need a single source for services — not someone who’s…
