Changes to make MySQL vs. MariaDB less confusing

[Norvald Ryeng]

----- james.hogarth at gmail.com wrote:

> From the first date Honza announced the intended feature we heard a
> lot of promises from Oracle about how they would act with stewardship
> but words are cheap - so far in all this time there's been little of
> any actual substance.

I get the feeling the discussion is about maintainership, but taking over maintainership has not been an issue. Honza is the maintainer. He's doing a good job, and last I heard he intends to continue doing so for a while. What we/I did for F19 was to help solve the problem at hand: Find a way to have both MySQL and MariaDB in Fedora. And it worked. Together we found a solution.

While Honza is still the maintainer, Bjørn has stepped up to help with packaging. He has made the 5.6 package that is currently in review, and Honza is reviewing it. As part of this effort, we've also had engineers in the background fixing bugs to reduce the number of patches applied during packaging.

If you want us to do more, please say so. We're happy to help out.

Regards,

Norvald H. Ryeng