On 14-04-26 04:40 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I would like to apply for a micro release exception for MariaDB. > > MariaDB 5.5 is a binary compatible drop-in replacement of MySQL 5.5 > published by the MariaDB Foundation, an organization independent of > Oracle. > > MySQL has been approved for MRE on 2014-02-07 > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions) > with the motivations listed at > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2014-February/001812.html > > The same motivations apply for MariaDB, including: > > - MariaDB Foundation policy is to support each major release for five years. > Version 5.5 will be supported until 2017 according to official policy > (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-maintenance-policy/) > and according to upstream developers they indend to release 5.5 branch > updates as long as Oracle does, and a bit after that too. > > - Micro releases happen from low-volume stable branches, > approximately once every two months. > > - The MariaDB repository includes thousands of tests and there is > a public continous automation system (Buildbot) which automatically > runs builds and tests suites for each commit. > > - As part of release preparations an even more extensive test suite is run > by upstream. > > - Tests are run on multiple architectures and distributions. > <snip>
+1 from me. Marc. -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
