On 18 February 2013 18:42, Bartłomiej Piotrowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello guys, > > Because Oracle is Oracle is Oracle(…) I would like to propose migration > to MariaDB. > > Jokes aside, the biggest problem with MySQL situation is that it becomes > more and more closed source. Oracle stopped publishing regression > tests[1], informative security advisories, they even hide bug reports > and not include them in release notes[2]. Very often their bzr > repository is falling behind new releases[3]. > > On the other hand, MariaDB is truly open source (it doesn't have > enterprise-only options) and has open development model. Security > advisories are published first on the mailing list for packagers with a > patch for current release and information when the bug will be fixed and > when the information about security hole can be published (Another > advantage for ricers -- some benchmarks show that MariaDB is faster.) > > From packaging side, MariaDB is (still) drop-in replacement for MySQL. > Unfortunately they are not fully compatible[4] and I don't want to lie > that I tested every package depending on MySQL before I pushed Maria to > [community], but since April 2012 there has been no bug report about > breakage. However I don't want to use replaces=, because clearly it > won't work for everyone. > Additionally switching now should be less problematic. MySQL 5.6 is > already out and it is not as compatible with incoming MariaDB 10 as it > was with 5.5 branch. While we keep Maria and MySQL branches in sync, it > should be quite safe. > > To get back to the point… This is how I would see the migration plan: > > 1. Synchronize MariaDB and MySQL systemd units. > 2. Move MariaDB to [extra]. > 3. Rebuild packages depending on mysql/libmysqlclient/mysql-clients > against its MariaDB counterparts. > 4. Announce MySQL deprecation. > 5. After month, drop MySQL to AUR. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > > [1] http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/ > [2] > http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-is-a-crashing-mysql-bug-not-a-bug-2012-08-15/ > [3] > http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/08/16/where-to-get-a-bzr-tree-of-the-latest-mysql-releases/ > [4] https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility
As long as it doesn't break anything I'm completely fine with moving to MariaDB.
