Hi! On 26 Aug 2014, at 13:49, Otto Kekäläinen <otto@seravo.fi> wrote: > Hello! > > The current plan is to ship MariaDB 5.5. > > The next version of MariaDB, numbered 10.0, has been in the NEW queue > for over 4 months: > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mariadb-10.0_10.0.10-1.html > Since the freeze date is in early November 2014, can we try to get this option moving, as MariaDB 10.0 is IMHO filled with a lot more features compared to 5.5 > If that queue would move any faster there would be an option to ship > 10.0. Is there anything that could be done? > > Shipping 5.5 isn't anyway a bad option. Upstream is most likely to > publish security releases for 5.5 for many years still, and it is easy > (and well proven) for users to upgrade from current MySQL 5.5 to > MariaDB 5.5. Ubuntu 14.04 has shipped MariaDB 5.5 in the Ubuntu > universe repos. > Upstream will publish security releases for many years to come -- it is the choice of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, so the commitment is there > However, newer is always newer, so shipping MariaDB 10.0 would be nice > if we have time to finalize it after it comes out from the NEW queue.. > I agree. -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
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