'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 07/12/11 20:53 did gyre and gimble: > 07.12.2011 22:31, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas: >> Op woensdag 07 december 2011 20:38:16 schreef Thomas Backlund: >>> After Alpha2 I guess we need to discuss this on a council meeting to >>> get a decision for Mageia 2. >> fine, i don't see the need of why to have a council meeting wrt this >> though... >> >> it's so frustrating, i'm doing here all the work and testing while >> mysql is >> officially unmaintained... >> >> we're going on and on about how we're going to drop everything >> unmaintained, >> but when push comes to shove, it's all a bluff... >> >> /rant >> >> lemme know when there _IS_ a good moment to submit > If MySQL has no maintainer for alpha 2 then i'm in for MariaDB. No point > to keep unmaintained packages if there is replacement and maintainer for > it.
I'm perfectly willing to give it a shot (even with my earlier concerns and caveats). Perhaps after alpha2 is a good idea, but I'm not against doing it sooner either for wider testing (the "officialness" of an alpha should mean it gets more testing... in theory!), especially as I doubt it will cause any problems due to the nature of the software and it's sources and who is behind it etc. If there is a problem we resubmit mysql before the beta stage. I certainly feel your frustration, (I've been in a similar situation several times!), but try to be pragmatic and understand peoples' concerns/paranoia (once bitten, twice shy and all that!) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
