Hi Sergei and Adam, I'm excited to share that VIDEX has been accepted into OSPP-2025 (Open Source Promotion Plan), a program where students apply to contribute to open source projects. We now have enthusiastic students ready to work on the MariaDB adaptation of VIDEX. Given your effective research and code investigation so far, I'd like to inquire about the progress and discuss potential collaboration arrangements. Your expertise would be invaluable in scheduling and coordinating this work to avoid duplicate efforts. The VIDEX students can contribute to either the optimizer/plugin side or the statistics server modifications - we're flexible and would appreciate your guidance on where their contributions would be most beneficial. The OSPP program runs from June 25 to September 30. Within this timeframe, we hope to achieve meaningful milestones that could serve as a foundation for potentially including VIDEX in the official MariaDB plugin list in the future. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the best way to coordinate this effort. For reference, here's the OSPP-2025 project page (available in English): https://summer-ospp.ac.cn/org/prodetail/25a990328?list=org&navpage=org Best regards, Rong ByteBrain Team, ByteDance