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A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs

Posted by Unknown on from the just-buy-our-more-expensive-widget-instead dept.

New submitter Archie Cobbs writes "Last May I encountered a relatively obscure performance bug present in both MySQL 5.5.x and MariaDB 5.5.x (not surprising since they share the same codebase). This turned out to be a great opportunity to see whether Oracle or the MariaDB project is more responsive to bug reports. On May 31 Oracle got their bug report; within 24 hours they had confirmed the bug — pretty impressive. But since then, it's been radio silence for 3 months and counting. On July 25, MariaDB got their own copy. Within a week, a MariaDB developer had analyzed the bug and committed a patch. The resulting fix will be included in the next release, MariaDB 5.5.33."

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  1. This is surprising why? by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Small projects can be about purity. Making the best possible code base you can. Especially ones where people work on it for free -- they wouldn't be working on it if they didn't deeply believe in it.

    Large corporations have different goals. The success of a changeset is not measured in how many bugs you fix or even how many features you add, but how much positive impact your paying customers and shareholders perceive.

  2. Well... by Ramirozz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he would have the right intention to measure response time both bug reports should have been filed at the same time... filing a seocnd one with the text saying "hoping it gets more attention than the competition" is pretty biased and provocative to the actions.

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  3. Not really a fair test by greenreaper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The poster made a comment in the second bug saying that they hoped to get a faster response than on the MySQL bug.

  4. Re:who cares? by Literaphile · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, but it is how you tell whether something is "of historical curiosity", which obviously MySQL is not, since it's the most popular RDBMS by far.