Slides from BoF session at Debconf19

1. MariaDB packaging in Debian
BoF session on next steps
Sala de Videoconferencia Tue 23rd July 2019 10:00-10:45
Participate
via
IRC
on
#debian-mysql
on
OTFC!

2. State of MariaDB and MySQL in Debian
● MariaDB 10.3 shipped in latest stable (Buster)
● MariaDB 10.4 will be uploaded to unstable soon (today?)
● MySQL 5.7 in unstable, but not in Debian releases
● mysql-defaults defines the settings
○ Debian defaults to MariaDB
○ Ubuntu defaults to Oracle MySQL
● Maintainer dashboard
○ https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?pkg-mysql-maint%40lists.alioth.debian.org
● Packages overview
○ https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-mysql-maint%40lists.alioth.debian.org

3. Packages overview for Debian MySQL Maintainers
<pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>

4. Old MariaDB versions in maintenance
https://packages.debian.org/search?lang=en&suite=all&searc
hon=names&keywords=mariadb-server
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?lang=en&suite=all&sear
chon=names&keywords=mariadb-server

5. Plenty of work in both
developing new and maintaining old

6. Commit summary 2018 – July 2019
git summary
debian/1%10.1.34-1..HEAD
commits : 212
185 Otto Kekäläinen 87.3%
7 Andreas Beckmann 3.3%
5 Samuel Thibault 2.4%
4 Vicențiu Ciorbaru 1.9%
3 Faustin Lammler 1.4%
2 Julien Muchembled 0.9%
1 Adrian Bunk 0.5%
1 Gregor Riepl 0.5%
1 Helge Deller 0.5%
1 Helmut Grohne 0.5%
1 Olaf 0.5%
1 Scott Kitterman 0.5%
git summary
mysql-5.7/debian/5.7.23-1..HEAD
commits : 33
18 Lars Tangvald 54.5%
14 Robie Basak 42.4%
1 Karl Stenerud 3.0%

7. Most recent uploads of each package
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:19:58 +0200
Source: mysql-connector-c++
Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:45:18 +0200
Source: mariadb-10.3
Changed-By: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:59:19 +0200
Source: mysql-5.7
Changed-By: Lars Tangvald <lars.tangvald@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:23:35 +0300
Source: galera-3
Changed-By: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 13:57:14 +0200
Source: mysql-defaults
Changed-By: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:32:06 +0200
Source: mariadb-connector-c
Changed-By: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>

8. 44%
Of messages on mailing
list in July was spam…
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/

9. Sprint in
DebConf18
Most bugs moved
to mariadb-10.3

10. Many bugs become stale because
cannot they cannot be reproduced,
are vague, badly reported..
You can help out with these by
simply commenting the bugs!
No coding skills required.

11. Please join!
● Participate in
bugs.debian.org
discussions!
● Send merge requests on
Salsa:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/patches
● Contribute upstream:
https://mariadb.org/get-involved/
● Join #debian-mysql (has
currently 8 people
idling + Salsabot)
● Join pkg-mysql-maint
mailing list