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First of all, thank you for your warm words of welcome – coming from so many people across different media, I think this is a very positive sign for working with the organisations and individuals within the MariaDB community.
Regardless of the situation, a change like this, or actually the person that comes in, is often described as a “new broom”. So I’m a new broom. This can provide a fresh start throughout, with an opportunity to clean up some stuff that is outdated, improve a few things, and execute new initiatives.
In my first week as CEO I’ve been talking with all our staff and of course reading up on many things. …
It’s both my pleasure and honour to write this post. Quite a few of you will know (of) me, but since that’s not necessarily the case I’ll try and make this a quick intro, as well as laying out some aspects of my thoughts and plans for the near future.
Who is Arjen?
A long time ago now, I was employee#25 at MySQL AB. During that period (2001-2007) I worked on the MySQL reference manual and built the docs team, spoke at many conferences, user groups and events, built the global community relations team and its activities, was program chair for the 2005 and 2006 MySQL Users’ Conference, taught training courses, and represented the company in Australia. …
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We are pleased to announce the launch of our public bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform:
The aim for this program is two fold:
- Review the vulnerability submission channels, guidelines and policy for responsible disclosure, as well as asset identification and vulnerability handling process on our side.
- Encourage researchers to look for vulnerabilities in MariaDB code and have a way to incentivize reporting in accordance with the responsible disclosure model.
Goal no.1 resulted in changes to our general vulnerability classification process described at mariadb.org/about/security-policy/. We now have two kinds of vulnerabilities, Critical and Medium severity, as well as a policy that should act as a guideline to the reporter as well as our team to ensure proper vulnerability management. …
The second MariaDB Developers Unconference of 2018 was held in Tampere, Finland on 26-29 June. The event was kindly hosted by Seravo and the Crazy Town venue offered us great facilities for collaborative work and discussions. Thanks to all 27 attendees who arrived!
Present were many core developers and new contributors interested in MariaDB development from all around the world. We had attendees all the way from Japan and India and also many from Finland and other European countries.
The first day – June 26th – was dedicated to new contributors and the topic of getting involved in MariaDB development. …
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We are happy to announce that the 2nd and final MariaDB Developers Unconference of 2018 will take place in Tampere, Finland during the last week of June:
- 26 June – New Contributor Day
- 27–28 June –Developers Unconference
- 29 June – Patch review day
Seravo are kindly hosting the event. If you want to attend, please sign up on the event page at Meetup.com. The event is free to attend.
Sign up to the MariaDB Developers Unconference
Read about getting involved in the development of MariaDB
Location
The event will take place in Tampere, Finland. …
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The MariaDB Foundation has added Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Ripple to the list of ways to contribute financially.
After experiencing problems with Paypal and disabling it as a means of contribution, our individual donations dropped off as not everyone found the alternatives, such as paying directly into the bank account, convenient.
We recently adding Liberapay as a payment method, and have now started accepting a number of cryptocurrencies. If you wish to donate in a cryptocurrency that is not yet supported, please let us know (you can do so in the comments on this post), and if there is enough demand we will consider adding it as an option. …
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The 2018 MariaDB Developers UnConference is being held in New York City on February 24 and February 25.
Below are a list of the sessions with links to slides where available. This post will be updated as slides become available.
Day One
* Welcome (Otto Kekäläinen)
* New Developers Tutorial and Best Practices (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
* Discussion: Refactoring transaction metadata storage (Marko Mäkelä) – slides
* Docker and why we should use it (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
* New 10.3 Optimizer Features (Vicențiu Ciorbaru) – slides
* MyRocks Storage Engine Status Update (Sergei Petrunia) – slides
* Group Insert (Yuan Zhang) – slides
* Cross-Engine Hot Backup (Marko Mäkelä) – slides
Day Two
* Replication internals and Ongoing and Future Projects (Andrei) – slides
* What’s new in MariaDB 10.3 for developers (Max) – slides
* Arm64 port and optimization (Sandeep) – slides
* Deep-dive: InnoDB transactions and write paths (Marko) – slides
* MySQL features missing in MariaDB (Colin) – slides
* Status of Spider patches in MariaDB 10.4 (Kentoku) – slides
* MariaDB 10.4 brainstorming (Otto) – Knowledge Base page …
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MariaDB was voted database of the year for the fifth year in succession in the 2017 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice awards, winning 42.22% of the vote, up from 41.29% last year. Thanks to everyone from the community that voted for us. MariaDB has now won the award in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
2018 will see MariaDB 10.3 being released as stable. 10.3 is a major new release with the focus on compatibility, easing migration from other DBMSs, as well as adding new features that are sure to be well used, such as system-versioned tables, which allow one to query data as it existed at a previous point in time (useful in case of disaster!). …
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