<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Sadly im still learning about ubuntu development as of this development cycle. :( I hope to join clints team, and help out as much as I possibly can this release cycle :)</div><div><br></div><div>Nicholas if you need a hand or anything i have plenty of computing power to install a debian vm and help that way.</div><div><br></div><div>Hypothetical question for you here:</div><div><br></div><div>Lets say I fix something upstream and then i proceed to package the fix and it ends up in my ubuntu ppa could i submit that to the debian mysql team so that i can get it sponsored cutting out you guys having to package it, therefore releasing you to work on other possibly more serious issues?</div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 7, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jonathan,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Well there is the Ubuntu developer path (<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/developers">http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/developers</a>). 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.<br><br><br>On 07/05/12 15:12, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I would like to help you out Nicholas, but how can i help out if i am<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">working on ubuntu?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jonathan Aquilina<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On May 7, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On 07/05/12 10:41, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">If you are wanting a vibrant MySQL + clones community in debian why is<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">clint mentioning dropping it in both.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I think this is the wrong way round. As long as there is a vibrant<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Debian MySQL community, MySQL will be in Debian. Even if Clint formed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">a fixed conviction that MySQL could be dropped, as long as other<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">people were willing to maintain it, his conviction would come to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">nothing. He said as much in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2012-February/003938.html">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2012-February/003938.html</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">. If Clint (and anyone who feels srongly enough) is going to discuss<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the situation regarding Oracle, MySQL, Pecona, MariaDB and so on than<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that is surely a good thing. And the original comment came up at a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">time when in pactice noone was maintaining MySQL in Debian, so was<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">entirely fair. It is to avoid that situation arising again that I am<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">trying to document how the community including can work together on<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">MySQL and with Ubuntu in the Debian Wiki:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL">http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL</a>.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>