Ensuring continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ... · – 10.2 presentation later today...

© 2016 MariaDB Foundation1* *

Ensuring continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB

ecosystem

Otto Kekäläinen October 5th 2016

Percona Live EuropeAmsterdam


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© 2016 MariaDB Foundation3

The MariaDB Foundation and Corporation are separate entities

● Similar to WordPress/Automattic, OwnCloud Foundation/Corporation, BigBlueButton/Blindside.

● MariaDB Corporation is only one of the sponsors, contributes 1/6th of the yearly budget.

● The Foundation staff do not work for the MariaDB Corporation.


The MariaDB Foundation mission

Ensuring continuity

Make sure that MariaDB continues to thrive and stay maintained as long as there are users who need it.

Open collaboration

Be a place where everybody can contribute and collaborate using the best open source methodologies.

Drive adoption

Make sure MariaDB is universally available and included on all major platforms, serving an ever growing community of users and developers.


Ensuring continuity

● The Foundation has the relevant technical assets and tools (mariadb.org website, version control repository, build and release systems).

● The Foundation has copyright via staff work and contributor work (CLA). For the rest (some copyrights, trademark etc) the Foundation has irrevocable licenses to use (e.g. GPL, BSD).


Open collaboration

● Publish code in real time, not just at release time.● Discuss and plan on public mailing list and IRC.● Public bug tracker, transparent progress and

priorities.● Respond quickly to pull requests on Github and to

bug reports that have patches attached.● Keep documentation up-to-date, develop

documentation alongside code and allow also contributions in documentation.

● Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups.● True open source, not just code dumps.


Welcoming new contributors


Benefits of widely used open source software like MariaDB

● Quality: The bigger the community is, the faster the software evolves.

● No lock-in: Software stays open source, ecosystem has multiple vendors.

● No dead-end: Big user base guarantees availability of software and people.

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”Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow” – Linus's law


Broad adoption

Google Trends


Active development and use

Steadily increasing LOC(10.1 branch / Ohloh.net)

DB-Engines.com ranking of MariaDB

05

10152025303540


Big or small – everything counts


Foundation staff

● 7 people, including Michael Widenius

● Makes MariaDB available to as many users as possible (porting, packaging)

● Single contact point for collaboration and contributions

– Make sure all pull requests and patches are responded to promptly and properly reviewed

– Respond at [email protected], collaborate with security teams and publish CVEs


Foundation development work

Focusing on issues that benefit as many users as possible

● Work with community contributors to steward patches through the integration process

● Develop new features, tests, continuous integration and QA, packaging, tracking sister projects, security etc

● Dedicated employee for documentation

● Grow new developers

● Maintain mariadb.org

● Increase adoption

● Connect users with specific needs to service providers


Achievements in 2015

● Release of 10.1 for General Availability, includes built-in Galera cluster support and new encryption features (contributed by Google), better performance and improved security features

● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 60 attendees

● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc.

● Increased community and adoption

● Read report at https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/

https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/


Achievements in 2016

● Stable release of 10.2 planned for December

– window functions, common table expressions...

– 10.2 presentation later today by Sergei G● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 70

attendees

● Ported to MIPS, HPPA; refreshed for MacOS X

● Increased community and adoption

– Debian: from an option to the default

– WordPress.com


Towards the best solution in the worldUsing the open source software development model


Thanks!

mariadb.org

@[email protected]

http://mariadb.org/

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