How to Contribute Code to MySQL?
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The document outlines how to contribute code to MySQL, detailing the reasons to contribute, the process, and the necessary resources. It includes information on the community contribution program, coding guidelines, version control systems, and available educational resources like MySQL University. Additionally, it provides links and contacts for further engagement and support within the MySQL community.
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How to Contribute Code to MySQL?
- 1. THAVA ALAGU Staff Engineer, Database Group, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore [email_address] http://blogs.sun.com/thava/ July 2008 HOW TO CONTRIBUTE CODE TO MYSQL ?
- 2. Welcome !
- 3. AGENDA : CONTRIBUTING Why ? How ? Getting Started Resources
- 4. WHY CONTRIBUTE ? Learn ! Get Famous! Land the job you want! Get Rich! Feel Good! Have Fun!
- 6. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE ? Community Contribution Program http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Community_Contributions Quality Contribution Program http://dev.mysql.com/programs/qualitycontribution.html
- 7. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM Pickup Open Worklogs http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/ComContribution_Worklog Pickup Open Bugs http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/ComContribution_Bugs Send e-mail to [email_address] Get MySQL Mentor assigned for the task Subscribe to [email_address] Subscribe to [email_address]
- 8. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM… (CONTD) Sign Contributor License Agreement online Submit patch to [email_address] Included in next community preview Regression Bugs => Assigned Free for you! Everything is good … Included in server version
- 9. QUALITY CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM Bug Reports, Test Cases, Code Patches 50 Points - Basic Contributors. Enterprise Basic 200 Points - Enterprise Silver 500 Points - Enterprise Gold 1000 Points - Enterprise Platinum What is Enterprise Edition ? http://www.mysql.com/products/which-edition.html
- 10. FOR STUDENTS: GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2008Ideas
- 11. CODING GUIDELINES : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Coding_Guidelines No Tabs No Carriage Returns Use 2 spaces for indentation Etc.
- 14. REFERENCE MANUAL … Excellent Online Reference Manual : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/index.html Annotated with User Comments !
- 15. GETTING STARTED … Bazaar – Version Control System http://bazaar-vcs.org/ Why Bazaar ? cvs, svn, hg, git, bazaar !
- 16. BAZAAR … Distributed Version Control System Backed by Canonical Ltd, the Ubuntu Linux Company MySQL hosted at : https://launchpad.net/mysql-server Getting Started with Bazaar for MySQL : http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/getting-started-with-bazaar-for-mysql.html Submitting Patch: bzr diff > mybug.patch [ changes not yet committed ] Send to: [email_address]
- 17. BUILDING MYSQL SOURCE … Checkout Source : bzr branch lp:mysql-server/6.0 Follow Instructions in Reference Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing-source.html ./BUILD/compile-pentium-debug --prefix=~/mysql6/install make install make test
- 18. MAILING LISTS … http://lists.mysql.com internals - For dev questions announce – Low traffic, announcements only mysql bugs gui-tools – Administrator and Query browser java – JDBC Drivers, MySQL Connector/J benchmarks cluster myodbc, dotnet, perl, plusplus, win32, packagers
- 19. MYSQL UNIVERSITY http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University Every Thursday at 15:00 CET, 7:30 PM IST, 1 hr session Recorded Sessions Available Online Web – MySQL_University#Upcoming_Sessions IRC – server: irc.freenode.net , channel: #mysql-university Voice stream – http://your_nickname:[email protected] Semester Break now – Classes to Resume from Sep 4th
- 20. IRC – INTERNET RELAY CHAT http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/IRC IRC – server: irc.freenode.net , channels #mysql , #mysql-dev, #workbench Xchat - popular IRC Client Web access for IRC using Public Free Servers: E.g. http://mibbit.com
- 21. MYSQL INTERNALS Checkout this link at forge.mysql.com : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals MySQL Internals – Book By Sasha Pachev
- 22. SOURCE CODE CROSS REFERENCE Cscope Doxygen Opengrok Lxr
- 23. CSCOPE C symbol: mysql_insert File Function Line 0 sql_insert.cc <global> 552 bool mysql_insert(THD *thd, Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: mysql_insert Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file: Find all function definitions: Find all symbol assignments: cscope -buq -I. -Iinclude -Isql -Imysys ... -i ./cscope.files cscope -d
- 24. MYSQL WITH NETBEANS Import Source Code Assistant : Specify Include Directories, CFLAGS Complete IDE – Integrated Editing, Debugging Uses Gdb or Dbx
- 25. RUNNING DEBUGGER WITH MYSQL… Command Line gdb/dbx for best control How to Run MySQL With Debugger : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/How_to_Run_MySQL_With_a_Debugger Are you Solaris truss fan ? On linux, use : strace -e trace=file progname # Trace syscalls ltrace -e funcname -l libname progname # Trace lib
- 26. MORE RESOURCES … MySQL Forge: Resources for community : http://forge.mysql.com MySQL Forums: http://forums.mysql.com Lots of groups including various topics like migration, all connectors, workbench, individual storage engines, etc. Lot more forums than mailing lists Planet MySQL – Blog aggregator http://planetmysql.org Developer Zone: Developer Articles, etc. http://dev.mysql.com
- 27. THAVA ALAGU Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/thava/ [email_address] Twitter: thavamuni July 2008 Q & A