Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz <hakan@askmonty.org> writes:

I would like to put the scripts to a bzr repository. I guess launchpad is a good place. A separate repository makes sense to me, or maybe add them to the MariaDB sources?

Yes. I have for some time known we need a public repository with the tools we use for MariaDB development. So now I have created a project for this on Launchpad. Branch to push to: lp:mariadb-tools Project page: https://launchpad.net/mariadb-tools Wiki page: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Tools_for_MariaDB Everybody, please help by moving things from our internal bzr repo hasky:/usr/local/bzr into this project where relevant. And also please help by updating the wiki page with appropriate documentation.

I have a first working version of the wrapper scripts to automatically run sql-bench with a set of different configurations.

From this description, it sounds like something that would make sense to include in the MariaDB source tree? If so, I guess just commit them and get a review.

Generally, it is an advantage to keep tools that work on a specific version of MariaDB inside the source tree, especially for automation (like Buildbot). Eg. if different variants of the scripts are needed for different MariaDB versions (maybe using a feature that is not present in older versions); keeping the scripts inside the tree trivially ensures that the versions of scripts and of MariaDB matches. It also removes any issues wiht making sure the scripts are available on a given host. On the other hand, if the script needs to work with different versions of MariaDB it probably makes sense to keep it outside of the main source tree. Maybe the script needs to check out the MariaDB source tree (like package scripts); it cannot easily checkout itself... Or maybe it needs to compare two different versions of MariaDB against each other (benchmarks, upgrade testing). For some tools the correct approach would be that part is inside the source tree and part outside. - Kristian.