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Message #05210
Re: Determining to which project a patch should be sent.
Hi, Christian!
On Feb 19, Christian Convey wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As I work through the Coverity Scan results of MariaDB's trunk, I find
> myself having to research what some functions do, and the meanings of
> their parameters and return values. Rather than just recording what I
> learn on a piece of paper, I thought it might be nice to write Doxygen
> comments for some of those functions / structs / etc. That way,
> perhaps other persons trying to learn the code base could benefit.
>
> Here's the problem. Based on Monty's blog posting about MariaDB 10
> vs. MySQL 5.6 ( http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ ),
> it's not obvious to me which files / functions / etc. in MariaDB have
> been forked from MariaDB, vs. which ones will be replaced with the
> corresponding MySQL code when the next MySQL release comes out. This
> means that when I write Doxygen comments for a given file / function
> /struct / etc., I don't know whether to submit that comment patch to
> the MariaDB project or to the MySQL project.
>
> Does anyone know I I can figure that out?
Are you looking at 10.0?
Feel free to send everything to us.
Regards,
Sergei
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