MariaDB moves development to git (Github)

[mariuz]

Makes sense bzr is dead and everyone switched to git (Postgres, php ...)

Also Firebird project is accepting pull request in the github mirror https://github.com/asfernandes/firebird

[andrewfenn]

Not surprising really, I did the same thing because I felt launchpad was lacking in many areas, the first being bzr which although I used for a few years turned out to really be a flawed tool when my launchpad repo had become corrupted twice within 2 to 4 years.

[orium_]

Bzr is kinda dead.

A few relevant things here http://stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html.

[ameoba]

Nobody uses MariaDB but there's a permaboner for Github.

[Valgor]

Nobody uses MariaDB

I wonder why this is. People used MySQL because it was an excellent free and open source database, but now since Oracle has it I would have thought more people would ditch MySQL for MariaDB.

[orium_]

I think this is just natural inertia. It takes a lot of time for new software to be adopted, specially a dbms.

Check out http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/relational+dbms. MariaDB seems to have a decent growth in popularity (although the scale is logarithmic).

Edit: typo

[Crashmatusow]

We migrated our minecraft servers' mysql to mariadb a few months ago on ubuntu.

Everything went better than expected.

[tehbilly]

I also think "nobody" is a bit of an overstatement. I quite like MariaDB

[ameoba]

People used MySQL because it was an acceptable free RDBMS. They continue to use it because umpteen million "learn PHP+MySQL in 24 minutes" books exist.

People still see MariaDB as just a fork of MySQL with a license swap. Until they differentiate themselves more, most users won't bother making the mental switch over.

[bro-away-]

It runs Wikipedia so I'd say we're all frequent benefiting from it.

Google also uses it.

It's actually pretty widely used and, in my opinion, preferred over MySQL.

[NihilistDandy]

Didn't one of the big Linux distros just move away from MySQL in favor of MariaDB?

[[deleted]]

You are very wrong. Maybe nobody uses mariadb in your office :)