Category: Community
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Going for a Code of Conduct
It may be long overdue, but based on recent events, we have launched Code of Conduct project at MariaDB Foundation. Our aim is to get your feedback and define a CoC, ideally by end of January, if we see convergence.
In the meantime, if we see unacceptable behaviour on the MariaDB mailing list or elsewhere, we will take action. We want to extend our apology to those who have had unpleasant experiences, about which we have done nothing in the […]
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MariaDB metrics errors – a post-mortem
I’m going to start this blog post by saying that I made a mistake, a mistake that means all of the metrics blog posts so far have been made with erroneous data. As part of our openness value I will give a post-mortem of the issue here.
Metrics generation
Before we look into what went wrong, I first need to give a bit of background. The commit metrics are generated using a tool called “gitdm”, this is a “Git Data […]
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This one trick can make MariaDB 30x faster!
Yes, it is a bit of a click-bait title, but in this case running one SQL command did improve a community user’s performance by that much. It could help you too.
The story
A community user posted in a couple of places that when migrating a large WordPress installation to MariaDB that they were seeing a certain query performing terribly. The query was taking 1.5 seconds to execute and it was clear from the explain plan that the optimizer was […]
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Contribution Statistics September 2022
Last month we provided contributor statistics for the last few years. We have had some fantastic feedback from this so today we are presenting you with another drop of contributor statistics for the last month. Normally we would be doing these quarterly but there are so many extra things to report that we decided to do a bonus one now.
Some key things have happened in the last month which affect the data, the first is that MariaDB 10.11 has […]
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MariaDB Server Fest 17 Nov 2022
The MariaDB Foundation will be hosting a Server Fest on Thursday 17 November 2022. This time it’ll be a hybrid event, harnessing the energy that comes from many of the participants being present in person.
To encourage interaction, the event will be streamed live, but will not immediately be made available online, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to interact with the speakers and MariaDB members in person!
The keynote speaker will be Wikimedia Foundation’s Manuel Arostegui. The schedule […]
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Regressions in recent MariaDB Server releases
Our most recent MariaDB Server release introduced some regressions starting with the 10.6 series, affecting 10.7 – 10.9 as well. This blog post is here to explain the problems in hopes that the impact is minimized. We are likely going to release a new version of MariaDB correcting these problems soon.
InnoDB Full Text Index on tables causes an assertion error (MDEV-29342)
There was a bug in the InnoDB Storage Engine where the full text index could go out of […]
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Publishing of Contribution Statistics
In the last meeting, the MariaDB Foundation Board proposed the regular publishing of contribution statistics. This post is an update on our progress and the first report.
Whilst there has been some progress on this project since the board meeting, a vast majority of the progress has happened since mid-August and improvements are continuing to happen rather quickly. I will break down the request and our progress below.
Monthly Statistics Publishing
MariaDB Foundation starts to, on a monthly cadence, publish […]
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Generating MariaDB Metrics
Something that is very important to us in the MariaDB Foundation is “Openness”. This is not only in the open source nature of MariaDB, but we are also very transparent in what happens with the MariaDB source code. With that in mind we have been working on ways to generate metrics that show information about the community in a consumable form.
As with everything we do the scripts to generate these metrics are completely open to the public so that […]