Asher, This is great news! Thanks for your perseverance and setting up MariaDB 5.5 for en.wp :-) Monty will be thrilled!
Best, Alolita On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Asher Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nice! >> >> >> > The main goal of migrating to MariaDB is not performance driven. More >> so, I think it's in WMF's and the open source communities interest to >> coalesce around the MariaDB Foundation as the best route to ensuring a >> truly open and well supported future for mysql derived database technology. >> Performance gains along the way are icing on the cake. >> > >> >> >> If it works out, then at some point we should probably tell the MariaDB >> peeos that they can mention that the WMF uses it. :-) > > > We've been talking to Monty Widenius who visited the WMF office prior to > the Foundation announcement, and are fostering mutual support between the > Wikimedia and MariaDB Foundations. Win-win for the open source community > at large! > > -A > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
