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A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs
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."
Well, DONTGIVEAFUCK is one of the statuses on their Bugzilla. Just sayin'.
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.
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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The poster made a comment in the second bug saying that they hoped to get a faster response than on the MySQL bug.
Some people never learn until you throw a laser disc at them. It smarts enough that they normally don't want a repeat.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
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.
The confusion arising from the fact that oracle mysql shares the same name with the former mysql, while mariadb which is philosophically the natural heir of the latter had to choose a different name.
Apparently Oracle did the right thing by buying up the name, many fall for it and many others mod them up. Depressing, huh.
And now you all proper slashdotters are thanking God that something named "postgresql" has basically no marketing value, aren't you.
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