Thanks for sharing this. I think it was a productive session and hopes this helps the Foundation grow.
One last question, is the information obtained from the pop-up form on downloads.mariadb.org made available to all Foundation partners? On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Colin Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > These notes were from the last session on Friday, 7 October, at the > MariaDB Server Developers meeting in Amsterdam at the Booking.com office, > headed by Eric Herman, Board Member of the MariaDB Foundation > > # MariaDB Foundation priorities > > ## Goal: foster collaboration > > 1. Product should be called MariaDB Server (MariaDB is the company, since > MariaDB Corporation owns the trademark) > * needs some copyediting on the MariaDB Foundation website that > needs editing > > 2. the MariaDB Foundation board majority shouldn't be from MariaDB > Corporation. Expect that to be fixed within a week, at least 50:50 -- > Monty. Is there a community board member? Monty says Serg, but JF/Eric says > this is a conflict of interest. Is there a path for community governance? > Serg represents the developers. Board selects its own members, says Otto, > and there can be a maximum of 10 board members. Now they will think about a > community member. > > 3. The documentation is on mariadb.com (the The MariaDB Knowledge Base: > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/). Monty says the documentation is going to > stay on mariadb.com. It is a barrier to contribution, according to Eric. > Serg says MariaDB Foundation finds this a priority and is working on it. > > 4. Twitter/FB accounts are owned by MariaDB Corporation - so there will be > a new one created for the MariaDB Foundation / MariaDB Server. The > Corporation is going to keep @mariadb > > 5. Jira says it's licensed to MariaDB Corporation. > > ## Goal: Priorities for code > 1. Steward patches through the integration process > 2. Personal engagement when it comes to you asking about patches, > features, etc. in Jira or list > 3. One MariaDB Server release a year, and Serg stewards that > 4. The MariaDB Foundation does not do any paid for work! > 5. Security, porting, and packaging is a priority of the MariaDB > Foundation (e.g. getting the MariaDB Server to work with clang is important) > > ## Booking's goal: easy to upgrade/cross-grade between distributions of > MySQL/MariaDB Server > * Eric says that interoperability is a big deal for Booking > * Monty says, all members in the MariaDB Foundation have different > priorities, but if it's important for Booking, the MariaDB Foundation will > focus on it. Maximum increased MariaDB Server usage - this means the > mission statement suggests that there must be interoperability. > * JF says, Jira is not supported on MariaDB Server (certified with MySQL > 5.6). Increasing adoption will happen if more applications can run with > MariaDB Server. > * Monty says, MySQL 5.6, should be comparable to MariaDB Server 10.1. And > for 10.2 it should be compatible with MySQL 5.7. > > ## Transparency > * Transparency during the development process and technical decision > making - Vicentiu thinks we can do better, because a lot of decisions are > happening on private channels > * The Oracle compat work, it is a project from MariaDB Corporation, and it > will be donated to the MariaDB Foundation > * Vicentiu says that most of the talk about bugs happen on the MariaDB > Corporation Slack channel. Serg says that no one would read them anyway. > Monty agrees that having all discussions on server engineering should be on > public IRC/lists. Increases transparency but maybe doesn't lower the > barrier to participate, says Otto. > * (Contributor who’s name I didn’t catch) PostgreSQL does all their > discussions on public mailing lists and it really helps. > > -- > Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ > twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles > "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then > you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Mark Callaghan [email protected]
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