And The Winners Of The Inaugural Top External Contributor To MariaDB Award are ...

Couple of weeks ago we’ve announced a poll for the Top external contribution of 2025. Thank you all that voted for the time you took to do so.

The vote was organized in two categories:

Organizations
Individuals

And the winner is …

We are extremely happy to share that the winner of 2025 Top Contributor to MariaDB award.

Organizations

In this section the Winner is:

MDEV-36737 Research and Estimation for Adapting VIDEX to MariaDB!

Congratulations to ByteDance and Haibo Yang (YoungHypo) and Rong Kang (kr11)!

This contribution received 68% of the vote!

Individuals

In this section the Winner is:

MDEV-21376 mysqldump should support wildcards

Congratulations, Ivan Bochkov (ivan-bochkov)!

This contribution received 66% of the vote!

Now on the fun part: the awards!

We have worked hard on some very cool certificates and badges! Our top contributors deserve only the best of the best kind of recognition!

The “MariaDB Top Contributors” github Club

First, there’s the special very elite club of the github.com MariaDB Top Contributors. This is a badge (and a designated github “organization” that implements it) that will show up in your organizations list to signify that you are have been selected as a top contributor to the MariaDB project.

We will need your github handle for it.

Note: To proudly fly the badge on your github profile you will need to make your participation in this organization public by going to the settings page, searching for your profile and selecting “public” instead of “private” next to it.