Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

[Morten Stevens]

On 25.01.2013 18:49, Andrew Rist wrote:
>
> On 1/23/2013 6:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:49 -0800, Andrew Rist wrote:
>>> but the database choice for Fedora should only focus on the merits and
>>> the quality of the MySQL code
>> You may have read the mission statement, but you appear to have entirely
>> missed the four foundations:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations
>>
>> of which 'Freedom' and 'Friends' are notably the first. The concerns
>> I've seen raised around MySQL are not related to the 'merits and the
>> quality of the...code' but to the freedom of the development community,
>> a topic that was noticeably absent from your mail.
> Thanks to all for the comments.   Norvald and I offered to help package
> and provide technical information to inform Fedora's choices.   This
> hopefully covers "Friends", or friendly intent.   As for "Features" and
> "First"  MySQL 5.6 is simply better, more performant and more stable,
> and we think the community will not be happy with an older and less
> stable fork of the code.   MariaDB is also going to continue to diverge,
> which is good reason to continue to provide both MySQL and MariaDB so
> your users can make the choice of which to use.

I think that's a good statement. Fedora users should have the 
possibility to choose between MySQL and MariaDB.

Best regards,

Morten