Re: Distro packaging decisions and the non-public Enterprise source

Jeremy Cole wrote:

Hi!

>> There are obviously more planned features, besides your own profiling 
>> patch. I believe the patch queue log is public, even

Yes, consider this reasoning as something for 5+1. No new features, is a crucial item for stability :)

Must think ahead for the future. 5.0 has gone thru too many changes, and I think we shouldn't beat the horse on it any longer...

>> Since distributions don't normally *ship* every month, how does this 
>> make it worse for our user base?

The artificial delay works towards *most* distro maintainers benefit. They don't release updates daily or monthly ;-)

>> Distributions typically ship once every 6-9 months, with the exception 
>> of Gentoo and FreeBSD who have a different sort of packaging system 
>> that handles "ports"
>>
>> So, frankly, every bit of software you get on your distribution is 
>> mostly *outdated*. Providing one source release once every 3 months 
>> (90 days) ensures that distributions are actually getting the freshest 
>> copy of MySQL Community, and during their "support cycle" can release 
>> another update in another 3 months, even

Hence the reason for no more new features, which will help all future mysql releases as well

>>> Given the above, this actually doesn't make much sense, since we are 
>>> using MySQL's own tarballs on DorsalSource (and mirror.ps), there is 
>>> no need to rename them.
>>
>> Yes, there is. I believe you cannot call it MySQL Enterprise, because 
>> that in itself is trademarked

Correct. select version(); was what i was referring to more than anything

> The DorsalSource builds also take care to not use "enterprise" in the
> name, they are merely MySQL builds with even version numbers. You'll
> notice that the only place "enterprise" even appears is to name the
> "branch" from which the sources come, which I believe should be fair game.

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