On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Oct 13, 2008, at 12:33 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: > >> Percona has made a public statement on this. >> http://www.percona.com/percona-lab/dev-plan.html >> http://www.percona.com/blog.html > > I saw those. It stops short of saying "we have forked, and this is our > release schedule".
Why do you have to fork to do development? They are adding features. Google is adding features. Neither is forking because the features are eventually kept in sync with official releases. > > Except for Drizzle, most others seem to be doing this in a tepid manner. Our > approach though, I mean by this Drizzle, is a bit more radical obviously > (and the Drizzle project has a different end game goal then the main > branches). > > What I want to see though is folks to step up and execute if this is their > intentions. Right now there is a lot of "what is the plan" that seems to be > going on between all of the different MySQL branches. They have stepped up with code that others can use. What more do you want? > > We may just need to see what happens. The only person who can say "this is > the future" is the project lead, and that is Monty Widenius. Until he comes > out and says "this is it" then we are all left scratching our heads. So far > he seems to be silent as well. I am personally left not knowing what the > future is at the moment. > > Oh well, this is all like playing fantasy football for me. I am really a > bystander to what is happening with the different mysql trees at this point. > When I fire up a few new databases in a couple of weeks they will be using > Drizzle. I think that the community will be what we define it to be. We don't have to ask anyone to define it for us. Lets just ship code that others can use. > > Well, except for one piece of my current personal projects, it may be using > Hyper Table :) > > Cheers, > -Brian > > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > -- Mark Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
