Hi Federico, Since I'm the one who tagged it... :) It's totally fine to report upstream bugs in MariaDB JIRA, please don't take offense at the tags, we just need them for our workflow. Regards, Elena On 1/10/2013 4:01 AM, Federico Razzoli wrote:

Hi all. I reported a bug in JIRA - I hit it in MariaDB but it was tagged as "upstream". This brings us to the question: is it ok to report upstream bugs in MariaDB's JIRA?

There are 2 reasons why I didn't report it to Oracle. Let me explain.

1) MySQL Ab and Sun never had a lot of data about me or the companies where I worked. They only had my email and my full name, plus some optional info, if I remember correctly. But my old account doesn't work anymore, and the new Oracle's sign up page REQUIRES a lot of data - including a physical address and a work phone. I don't want to provide them too much info about me and my company. 2) I tried to sign up with fake data, but after 2 days I didn't receive a confirm email and my account still doesn't work. They are very slow, or something doesn't work fine in their website, or they detected that some data I wrote is fake (but I got no error message).

I think that a company which develops open source software should be glad that people reports bugs, and should make the process easier. If the process is hard, I would prefer to report bugs to MariaDB. But, what does MariaDB think about it? Is it ok to report the bugs to you?

Federico Razzoli

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"Federico" == Federico Razzoli <federico_raz@yahoo.it> writes:

Small addition to Elena's answer: Federico> Hi all. Federico> I reported a bug in JIRA - I hit it in MariaDB but it was tagged as "upstream". This brings us to the question: is it ok to report upstream bugs in MariaDB's JIRA? <cut> When we mark it 'upstream' it means that: - This bug is also present in MySQL - If it's a complex fix and the bug is not critical, we are waiting a short time to see if and how MySQL fixes it (to keep the diff between MySQL and MariaDB as small as possible). - If MySQL is not fixing it, we will eventually fix it. Of course, any of our support customers can at any time come and rise priority for an existing bug, in which case we will fix it at once. Federico> I think that a company which develops open source software should be glad that people reports bugs, and should make the process easier. If the process is hard, I would prefer to report bugs to MariaDB. Agree completely. Federico> But, what does MariaDB think about it? Is it ok to report the bugs to you? As Elena said, yes of course! We actually prefer that bugs are reported in JIRA too, as Oracle from time to time remove bugs from their public bug system and that makes it very hard to know later on what a bug was about. Regards, Monty