Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

[James Hogarth]

> Firstly, some admins may be bound to mysql because of the certification
or similar reason, but it probably won't be a technical reason. It'd be
nice if admins work with providers in such cases and push them to add
mariadb into set of "supported" options. I believe there won't be technical
barrier to do so, so everyone could benefit from that.
>

Any admins retiring stability and certification probably shouldn't be
running fedora anyway... But that's a side issue. As an admin they are
welcome to use upstream (if oracle provide a fedora compatible repo) if
mysql is removed from fedora... Or just not migrate to Mariadb if both end
up packaged.

> Second, if mariadb differs more in the future and stops to be "drop-in"
replacement, then we'll need an alternative for applications, where mariadb
won't be suitable enough. Nevertheless, this is not a current issue right
now.
>

Indeed this is a straw man effectively.

> When we're talking about testing, there is a mariadb package built in
rawhide already:
>   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=380910
>
> We're not using obsoletes for now, so in order to install the builds you
can do the following (after the packages will by synced into rawhide repo):
>

It'll be worthwhile typo get this into F18 as others have suggested to test
without the risk of rawhide eating their data ;-)

For what it's worth the brief interaction with the two Oracle employees in
this thread sounds very similar to statements made by Oracle with respect
to Hudson and OpenOffice.org with lots of promises on one hand but those
mostly being fluff... Of course the history there speaks for itself.