Greetings earthlings, As some of you may know, I've been doing the bulk of the package maintenance on the mysql package for a while now. It started as part of my day job with Canonical, but since leaving Canonical it has been more a labor of love for Debian.
I have love for other things too, such as my children, and seeing the sun shine every once in a while. Thus, I have found almost no time for packaging MySQL for Debian. I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be handled. I think my October hour is about to be available, so I might be able to address those, but after that, if I don't get any more help, I'm done. What can you do to help? - Raise your hand and say you'll help - Perhaps help us do this right (I suspect I should have an RFH bug) - Join #debian-mysql on OFTC - Join the alioth team and request svn access - Triage bugs (src:mysql-5.5 and for oldstable src:mysql-5.1) - Help package the latest patch releases from Oracle - Help with MariaDB (James Page and Otto, thanks for doing this btw!) - Help us migrate to git Now, all of that said, please do not just pick up the package and run off and do a bunch of things without first letting us know you're doing it. There are people quietly working on some long term interesting things and you may be duplicating or diverging heavily from their work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382714368-sup-6959@clint-HP