Re: Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

[Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org>]

On 2013-05-07 08:34, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:39:50PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> > > As long as _MySQL_ maintainers are able (and want) to continue
> > > MySQL (or
> >
> > It's my understanding a lot of them jumped ship.
> >
> > Meh. +1 to kill MySQL for MariaDB. It's got a much better future. I
> > see it more like a libc changeover. Who cares, it's got the same
> > interface. We only have things to gain (better upstream, upstream
> > commited to real f/oss, new features, etc.)
>
> I don't really agree here. If you want a drop-in replacement from 
> MySQL
> we should switch to percona server. MariaDB is way more intrusive (new
> DB engine,...) than percona.

Percona Server does not solve the problem we have.

Percona follows Oracle's releases with their excellent patches. It is 
certainly an improvement for many workloads, and I don't want to down 
play the excellent work Percona puts into Percona Server. However, 
they're in the same boat as Debian, downstream from an increasingly 
closed and uncooperative upstream.