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The Path to Code Contributions in MariaDB Server
I have been working for the MariaDB Foundation as the Chief Contributions Officer for a couple of weeks and it is fantastic being part of the MariaDB family again. Part of my job is to help the community massage pull requests into something that we can merge. I am, however, finding that one of the worst parts of my job is having to say “no” to contributions that clearly took a lot of time and effort on the part of […]
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Contribution Wish List
Would you like to contribute to the MariaDB Server code base, its feature set, its quality? Here’s what you can do to help – in other words, here’s our Contribution Wish List
Scratching your own itch
The assumption around code contributions is usually that the code contributor extends the product in a direction that corresponds to the contributor’s own needs, which in turn are close to the needs of other users. “Scratching your own itch” is the phrase commonly used.
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MariaDB 10.10.1 RC and 10.9.2 GA now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.10.1, the first release candidate in the MariaDB 10.10 series, and MariaDB 10.9.2 the first generally available release in the MariaDB 10.9 series. These are both short-term support series, maintained for one year after GA.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 10.10.1
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.10?
Download MariaDB 10.9.2
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.9?
MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration […]
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MariaDB 10.8.4, 10.7.5, 10.6.9, 10.5.17, 10.4.26 and 10.3.36 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.8.4 and MariaDB 10.7.5, the latest Generally Available releases in their respective short-term support series (maintained for one year from their first GA release dates), as well as MariaDB 10.6.9, MariaDB 10.5.17, MariaDB 10.4.26, MariaDB 10.3.36 the latest stable releases in their respective long-term support series (maintained for five years).
See the release notes and changelogs for details. Note that repo mirrors may take some time to sync.
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Hired: Chief Contributions Officer
Openness, Adoption, Continuity: That’s the mantra of three words MariaDB Foundation uses to describe its mission. At the core of Openness are contributions of code to MariaDB Server. The good news: We are now putting more resources into contributions, by hiring Andrew “LinuxJedi” Hutchings as Chief Contribution Officer, starting today Monday 15 Aug 2022.
A senior position
As you can see already from Andrew’s title, it’s a senior position. When we opened up the position, we were fully aware that […]
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MariaDB & K8s: How to replicate MariaDB in K8s
In the previous blog we have seen how to create a statefulset MariaDB application. Also, we learned how replication works in MariaDB in this blog. Now, we will try to create a replicated statefulset application. As good references for creating this blog, I would like to give credit to the Kubernetes documentation as well as an example from Alibaba Cloud.
Configure replication
To replicate a MariaDB application we are going to create a statefulset that will consist of a single […]
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A mirror manager system to simplify the distribution of MariaDB binaries and packages
The MariaDB Foundation relies on public mirrors to distribute binaries and packages to the world. An overview of the full list can be seen at https://mirmon.mariadb.org. If you would like to volunteer to become a mirror, take a look at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mirror-sites-for-mariadb/.
Our download page already automatically suggests one of those mirrors for you to download our binaries. Same goes for the repository configuration tool; see https://mariadb.org/download.
The purpose of this blog post is to present you a new system that […]
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An intra-pandemic Staff Meeting
Well over two years ago was the last time the MariaDB Foundation staff had met. That was at FOSDEM, in February 2020. Thus, no big surprise, one of our topmost goals for 2022 was to have a staff meeting, face to face. It’s about time to oil the social relationships, to work together without connection issues, to be reminded of how work and life can be in a world where Covid isn’t the top issue.
In other words: we planned […]