The Planet MySQL has been abuzz with opinions for or against the acquisition of Sun (and in particular MySQL) by Oracle, but I do not have a strong opinion to chime in with in support of either groups. The reason is that I do not know anything about antitrust laws, which is the legal basis… Continue reading Oracle speculations
Month: December 2009
Orango.dk afgørelsen
[English summary: This discusses a recent legal decision that the domain orango.dk, which was used by one person for an email address since the year 2000, should be transfered to a newly started company with the same name. The decision has been appealed to the courts.] Som mange andre er jeg bekymret over den afgørelse,… Continue reading Orango.dk afgørelsen
MariaDB Buildbot configuration file published
I have now published the Buildbot configuration file that we use for our continuous integration tests in our Buildbot setup. Every push into main and development branches of MariaDB is built and tested on a range of platforms to catch and fix any problems early (and we also test MySQL releases before merging to easily… Continue reading MariaDB Buildbot configuration file published
Fixing a MariaDB package bug
One of the things that I am really happy about in MariaDB is that we have our releases available as apt (and yum for Centos) repositories. This is largely thanks to being able to build this on the OurDelta package build infrastructure (which again builds on things like the Debian packaging scripts for MySQL). Something… Continue reading Fixing a MariaDB package bug
(Almost) one year of MariaDB
Most of this year I have been working on the MariaDB project. So it is interesting to look back and see what has been achieved. For those that do not know, MariaDB is a project to create a community-oriented branch of the MySQL code base. We want MariaDB to be developed for the community, by… Continue reading (Almost) one year of MariaDB