Georgi Kodinov, Author at MariaDB.org

Inspired by my VERY long presentation on the topic at FOSDEM26 I thought I’d say a couple of words on how the contribution process works.

Contributing changes to MariaDB server is easy because it follows industry best practices: it’s using “normal” GitHub pull requests. Note that I’m working for the MariaDB Foundation. As such, “normal” for me is doing everything in the open, for everybody to see and participate. And all of the communication around the contribution (including the code review) is happening in that same pull request and is public. Until the intended end of the process: merging the pull request into the repository.

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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

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

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)!

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It’s the time of the year to look back and reflect. In line with the holiday spirit, we’d like to highlight some of the MariaDB Server contributions from 2025 that the team found particularly inspiring and interesting, and to say thank you to everyone who submitted them.

At the end of the post, we invite the community to help us recognise the most impactful external contributions of the year.