Why do you claim it wasn't GA ready? By MySQL standards I think it was very stable early on. You can decide whether I am more or less biased than other people making comments on this. Given that I have no experience with something like Oracle, I am not sure that early Oracle releases for a new major version are any better.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Colin Charles <byte@mariadb.com> wrote:

Giuseppe Maxia asks some questions:
http://datacharmer.blogspot.hk/2013/09/forking-mysql-for-how-long-can-forks.html

The comments featuring Justin Swanhart and Stewart Smith make a lot of sense - 5.6 was GA, it wasn't a GA-ready product. Its getting there to some extent (as do all MySQL releases: 6-9 months from GA date)

Feel free to comment on the blog post above

cheers,
-colin

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