Category: Foundation
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MariaDB Server is a true open source project
The mission of the MariaDB Foundation is to ensure continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem. We facilitate the development of the MariaDB Server and the related connectors as listed on our GitHub account. Core to us is to enable and foster collaboration so that contributing is meaningful and produces results for everybody.
Here are some of the things we do to ensure true open source:
- Publish code in real time, not just at release time.
- Discuss and plan on the public mailing lists and on IRC.
- Public bug tracker, transparent progress and priorities.
- Respond quickly to pull requests on GitHub and to bug reports that have patches attached.
- Keep documentation up-to-date, develop documentation alongside code and also encourage contributions in documentation.
- Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups.
- True open source, not just code dumps.
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MariaDB Foundation financial report for 2015
The 2015 accounting for the MariaDB Foundation has been completed and the key figures are:
- Total income: 272 827,95 USD
- Total expenses: 276 684,73 USD
- Net income after adjustments: 1 337,34 USD
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2015 in the MariaDB Foundation
The mariadb.org website had over one million page views in 2015, a growth of about 9% since 2014. Good growth has been visible all over the MariaDB ecosystem and we can conclude that 2015 was a successful year for MariaDB.
Increased adoption
MariaDB was included for the first time in an official Debian release (version 8.0 “Jessie”) and there has been strong adoption of MariaDB 10.0 in Linux distributions that already shipped 5.5. MariaDB is now available from all major […]
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Developer meeting & community meetup summary
MariaDB 10.1 shipped a few days ago, so it’s now a good time to focus on another important event. Last week we had a three day MariaDB developers meeting. It took place in Amsterdam (Oct 13-15). Meetings like this tend to have a great impact on the roadmap of the product. Booking.com was very kind to offer their facilities for the developer meeting.
Thank you Booking.com!
The day before the developer meeting there was a MySQL meetup arranged at eBay’s office […]
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News from the third MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting this year
The MariaDB Foundation Board has been meeting monthly since February and on Monday this week had the third meeting of the year. Here is an update on a couple of things from the meeting.
We’re happy to announce that Booking.com has renewed their support to the foundation. As a major corporate sponsor Booking.com has been offered a seat on the Foundation board. Booking.com nominated Eric Herman. Eric has a history with MySQL dating from 2004 where he joined MySQL working […]
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Changes in the MariaDB Foundation board and management
Year 2014 was an important year for the MariaDB project with the release of MariaDB 10.0. Adoption continued to grow both organically and by MariaDB being included both in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server distributions as the default database option. Ubuntu started providing MariaDB as an option since their release 14.04. MariaDB also came available in many cloud services, e.g. DBaaS in the Rackspace Cloud and Cloud Foundry. Those are just a few highlights. There […]
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The State Of The Sea Lion In Winter
A very happy new year to you from the MariaDB Foundation. Since I last wrote in June the Foundation has been doing plenty of work on everyone’s behalf.
First there’s the extensive technical work that Monty wrote about, which has been carried out by the team the Foundation employs who all work for Monty. He would like to grow that team a little, so your donations — or even corporate sponsorship or membership — would be especially welcome at the moment. With […]
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MariaDB Foundation achivements 2012-12 – 2013-09
Reposted from Monty Says.
I recently read some comments that we at the MariaDB Foundation have not been very open about what we are doing.
We are very sorry about this. The problem is not that we are secret about what we are doing, the problem is that not many of us working at the MariaDB Foundation are very active bloggers.
I will try to address this concern by starting a monthly blog about the MariaDB development that MariaDB Foundation […]