Hi!
I have not been using this email list lately, but it's time to change
that (but still keeping things at a very low volume).
I will now start post the most important things that is happening in
MariaDB community here so that people can easily follow what is going
on.
Upcoming conferences we are attending:
Next Wednesday, February 16'th, I will give a talk at Garum day in
Bilbao, Spain about MariaDB and open source entrepreneurship. I will
arrive to Bilbao on mid day of February 15'th. If you want to meet with
me during this time, feel free to drop me a line!
See http://garumfundatio.org/dia-garum-europa-2011 for details.
Other uppcoming conferences:
SCaLE - February 25-27, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
DrupalCon - March 7-10, 2011 - Chicago, IL
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/
MySQL Conference April 11-14, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Monty Program has submitted talks.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2011
LinuxCon Japan - June 1-3, 2011 - Yokohama, Japan
Monty Program has submitted talks.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan
We are also searching for volunteers for MariaDB boot duty / holding
MariaDB talks at conferences. If you are interested, please contact us
at community(a)askmonty.org.
What's happening in development:
- We are just now merging MySQL 5.1.55 with MariaDB 5.1 and plan to
release MariaDB 5.1.55 and MariaDB 5.2.5 during the next few days.
- We just merged in the newest FederatedX code, that has initial
support for partition tables. This is merged into 5.1 as it also
includes a critical bug fix that is needed into 5.1.
(lp:585688)
- We will soon release a new Windows installer for MariaDB; Most of
the code is written, we just have do so dome final testing and code
reviews on it before releasing it.
- In MariaDB 5.3 Sergei is adding support for sub seconds (6
decimals). As soon as this work is ready we will do a new alpha
release of 5.3.
- 5.3 is close to a beta; We have a couple of optimization patches
that needs to get in, support for dynamic columns, handler sockets and
the new faster HANDLER support before we can call it beta.
See http://kb.askmonty.org/v/what-is-mariadb-53
- Merge of MariaDB 5.3 + MySQL 5.5 -> MariaDB 5.5 is on the way.
We should have a tree available within a couple of weeks.
- It's still not clear which will be our next stable release ; MariaDB
5.3 or MariaDB 5.5. This will be decided after Sergei is done with
the 5.5 merge and can give us a report of what he thinks about the
stability of the 5.5 code.
If you want to discuss any of the above, please do it on
maria-discuss(a)list.launchpad.org.
Regards,
Monty
