MariaDB Developers Meetup 2016 welcome words
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The document outlines the goals and achievements of the MariaDB Foundation, emphasizing its mission to ensure the continuity and growth of the MariaDB database. It details the foundation's commitment to open collaboration, user engagement, and community-driven development. Key achievements include the release of version updates and increased adoption across platforms in 2015 and 2016.
MariaDB Developers Meetup 2016 welcome words
- 1. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation1 * * MariaDB Developer Meetup 2016 October 6th–8th 2016 Amsterdam Thanks Booking.com!
- 2. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation2 * * The MariaDB Foundation is funded by Booking.com, MariaDB.com, Visma, DBS and many others. Please support us to guarantee that our mission succeeds!
- 3. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation3 The MariaDB Foundation and Corporation are separate entities ● Similar to WordPress/Automattic, OwnCloud Foundation/Corporation, BigBlueButton/Blindside. ● MariaDB Corporation is only one of the sponsors, contributes 1/6th of the yearly budget. ● The Foundation staff do not work for the MariaDB Corporation.
- 4. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation4 The MariaDB Foundation mission Ensuring continuity Make sure that MariaDB continues to thrive and stay maintained as long as there are users who need it. Open collaboration Be a place where everybody can contribute and collaborate using the best open source methodologies. Drive adoption Make sure MariaDB is universally available and included on all major platforms, serving an ever growing community of users and developers.
- 5. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation5 * * Ensuring continuity ● The Foundation has the relevant technical assets and tools (mariadb.org website, version control repository, build and release systems). ● The Foundation has copyright via staff work and contributor work (CLA). For the rest (some copyrights, trademark etc) the Foundation has irrevocable licenses to use (e.g. GPL, BSD).
- 6. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation6 * * Open collaboration ● Publish code in real time, not just at release time. ● Discuss and plan on public mailing list and IRC. ● Public bug tracker, transparent progress and priorities. ● Respond quickly to pull requests on Github and to bug reports that have patches attached. ● Keep documentation up-to-date, develop documentation alongside code and allow also contributions in documentation. ● Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups. ● True open source, not just code dumps.
- 7. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation7 * * Welcoming new contributors
- 8. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation8 * * Foundation staff ● 7 people, including Michael Widenius ● Makes MariaDB available to as many users as possible (porting, packaging) ● Single contact point for collaboration and contributions – Make sure all pull requests and patches are responded to promptly and properly reviewed – Respond at [email protected], collaborate with security teams and publish CVEs
- 9. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation9 * * Foundation development work Focusing on issues that benefit as many users as possible ● Work with community contributors to steward patches through the integration process ● Develop new features, tests, continuous integration and QA, packaging, tracking sister projects, security etc ● Dedicated employee for documentation ● Grow new developers ● Maintain mariadb.org ● Increase adoption ● Connect users with specific needs to service providers
- 10. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation10 * * Achievements in 2015 ● Release of 10.1 for General Availability, includes built-in Galera cluster support and new encryption features (contributed by Google), better performance and improved security features ● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 60 attendees ● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc. ● Increased community and adoption ● Read report at https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/
- 11. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation11 * * Achievements in 2016 ● Stable release of 10.2 planned for December – window functions, common table expressions... – 10.2 presentation later today by Sergei G ● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 70 attendees ● Ported to MIPS, HPPA; refreshed for MacOS X ● Increased community and adoption – Debian: from an option to the default – WordPress.com
- 12. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation12 ”Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow” – Linus's law
- 13. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation13 Broad adoption Google Trends
- 14. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation14 Active development and use Steadily increasing LOC (10.1 branch / Ohloh.net) DB-Engines.com ranking of MariaDB 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
- 15. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation15 Growth pain
- 16. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation16 Growth pain
- 17. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation17 There are plenty of opportunities to contribute Scratch your own itch!
- 18. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation18 Big or small – everything counts
- 19. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation19 Number of contributors? (mariadb 10.2)$ git log --since='2016-01-01' | grep Author | sort -u | wc -l 92
- 20. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation20 * * Themes at the meeting ● Finalize 10.2 ● Plan 10.3 ● Plugins and storage engines: Galera, Spider, ScaleDB, MyRocks ● Improve our QA processes and development workflow ● Improve our release process and update flow to Linux distributions ● Compatibility (backwards and sideways)
- 21. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation21 * * Towards the best solution in the world Using the open source software development model
- 22. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation22 Thanks! mariadb.org @ottokekalainen [email protected]