Tag: code
-
Vibe-coding an Audit Plugin in Under 3 Minutes
Who says developing MariaDB plugins is hard? I was able to produce one in under 3 minutes!
I of course did it by asking Grok nicely:
The produced result is actually very decent:
It even produced a Makefile:
And compilation instructions:
While I had Grok’s attention I’ve given it a follow up task:
Note the “please” part! It’s important!
This second prompt made it realize its naiveté and parametrize the plugin better. It has added a new system variable (with […]
-
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 […]
-
Progress on Pull Request Processing
In his blog post “On Contributions, Pride and Cockiness ” in May, MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö spoke of a renewed focus on MariaDB Server pull requests. Processing community pull requests in good time is a key part of our mission, but we’d been falling behind, and receiving justifiable criticism. At the time of that article, there were 167 open pull requests, with many open for far too long, and contributors were frustrated.
We set out two end goals:
- Reduce backlog of open pull requests
- Motivate contributors to make more contributions
-
On Contributions, Pride and Cockiness
At MariaDB Foundation, we are proud of MariaDB Server getting plenty of contributions. But we don’t want to get cocky, so here is an update about where we stand, and what we want to make happen.
First, we have shown our contribution pride in several places. On 15 February 2019, I tweeted
On code contributions, #MariaDB beats #MySQL 1009 to 247: We have over a thousand (1009) closed pull requests on github (and 179 open), MySQL has 247 closed (1 […]