Hi!
On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:13 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
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.
Doing development is all great and such, but in the end it is
whistling in the dark if there is no release. I don't work on Drizzle
because it is fun, it is because I have a need for it.
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?
What is their release policy?
What is their agreement to fix bugs?
Are they willing to support the version they released last month?
There are a lot of questions someone should ask before they go off
using any of these versions. Just publishing code will not be enough
for the majority. Sure, there are the folks who can afford to pay
developers to keep custom in house versions going, but they are few
and far between.
If Percona wants to be the Redhat of the MySQL world, aka picking up
the code and redistributing it for a release, he has a ways to go.
BTW I am not saying he cannot do it, I believe he has the potential to
do it, but I don't see that happening just yet.
Cheers,
-Brian
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