[debian-mysql] MySQL Roundtable at Ubuntu Developer Summit this coming Tuesday

[Nicholas Bamber]

Jonathan,
	Well there is the Ubuntu developer path 
(http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/developers). And bug 
triaging works across both as 99% of the bugs will be in common. And you 
could contribute to the wiki to make sure it is inclusive of Ubuntu.


On 07/05/12 15:12, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> I would like to help you out Nicholas, but how can i help out if i am
> working on ubuntu?
>
>
> Regards
> Jonathan Aquilina
>
> On May 7, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>
>> On 07/05/12 10:41, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>> If you are wanting a vibrant MySQL + clones community in debian why is
>>> clint mentioning dropping it in both.
>>>
>>
>> I think this is the wrong way round. As long as there is a vibrant
>> Debian MySQL community, MySQL will be in Debian. Even if Clint formed
>> a fixed conviction that MySQL could be dropped, as long as other
>> people were willing to maintain it, his conviction would come to
>> nothing. He said as much in
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2012-February/003938.html
>> . If Clint (and anyone who feels srongly enough) is going to discuss
>> the situation regarding Oracle, MySQL, Pecona, MariaDB and so on than
>> that is surely a good thing. And the original comment came up at a
>> time when in pactice noone was maintaining MySQL in Debian, so was
>> entirely fair. It is to avoid that situation arising again that I am
>> trying to document how the community including can work together on
>> MySQL and with Ubuntu in the Debian Wiki:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL.
>>
>>
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