Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-28 Thread Akhil Mohan
Hi Clint, I am Akhil Mohan, new to the list and eager to help everyone here in packaging latest releases of MySQL server. Amongst the points highlighted by you, I think packaging MySQL 5.6 would be one of the priorities and I would like to participate in bringing up quality packages for

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:32:23AM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: 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

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of 2013-10-25 23:36:22 -0700: I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os? These days I have no standing machines of Debian. I do spin up cloud instances often that I use to do

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
i do have a testing vps i can setup for you an account on to do tetsting etc of mysql and maria db if it helps. I will also want to use it for my own testing purposes along side. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Clint Byrum spam...@debian.org wrote: Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Stewart Smith
Clint Byrum spam...@debian.org writes: 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

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-26 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Clint Byrum spam...@debian.org wrote: Greetings earthlings, As some of you may know, I've been doing the bulk of the package maintenance on

Re: MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-26 Thread Patrick Galbraith
Clint - perhaps you and I can talk about this in Hong Kong? -- 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/5f7ce033-3ae0-4c17-8356-a31015a72...@patg.net

MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-25 Thread Clint Byrum
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,