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[Michael Felt <mamfelt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations on a notable milestone in any case!


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Roberto Spadim <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Colin! =)
> No problems :) thanks for the free space
>
> Yes I read that Enterprise and didn't understood yet, maybe it's
> something about galera cluster? well don't need to answer, i will wait
> :)
>
> Well i really like MariaDB and yes i will talk everything that i
> consider important even bad things :)
>
> There's some guys talking in mariadb lists and outside the list about
> opengis, and mysql/mariadb isn't a rich database with gis, but it do
> some work (many times a good work), maybe could be interesting and
> it's a plan for mariadb 10.0 implement more about opengis, but let's
> wait what happens, developers what a big list of taks :)
> I see a good line to mariadb plans, that's important. Different from
> mysql, mariadb have features oriented to mariadb users, not to
> developers, users report what they need and can discuss at mail lists
> instead of a mysql pool about what community want and what devel team
> want to develop without a good discuss, I think mariadb have a good
> team and a nice community :) that's all we need :)
>
> cheers,
> Roberto Spadim
>
> 2013/9/24 Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Roberto,
> >
> > On 25 Sep 2013, at 04:51, Roberto Spadim <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> please, if mariadb got enterprise version, don't call it "mariadb
> >> enterprise" like mysql did, create another name...
> >> some users could tell "mariadb enterprise version is good, but mariadb
> >> community version isn't.", that happens to mysql here in Brazil at
> >> least
> >> about numbers, i don't think it's a problem for community, who care
> >> about download numbers? this don't make a good software :) and mariadb
> >> is very nice, better than mysql in many cases :) that's the point :)
> >>
> >
> > The MariaDB Server is and always will be opensource.
> >
> > I notice that mariadb.com talks about an Enterprise offering ("The new
> gold standard for database high availability" -- ?!?), which from my
> understanding has nothing to do with the MariaDB Server. Your feedback is
> important, and I tend to agree with you - it sure does sound confusing. I
> will pass this feedback on to the person responsible for this.
> >
> > And with regards to your topic on download numbers -- note that they're
> hugely not a representation of our userbase. We cannot count users in
> distributions, large scale installs, etc. We also naturally see a huge
> discrepancy when it comes to opt-in statistics:
> >         http://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/stats/server_count_by_month/
> >
> > Anyway, thank you for your valuable feedback and lets all focus on
> making MariaDB better!
> >
> > cheers,
> > -colin
> >
> >> 2013/9/24 Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> Hi Mark,
> >>>
> >>> On 18 Sep 2013, at 03:57, MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I am with Kristian.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you want non-company people to contribute then you need to make
> clear the boundaries between .com and .org. We all want the .com efforts to
> succeed but source code, docs, KB and download counts all seem like things
> that would be on the .org side.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> We definitely want non-company people to contribute as MariaDB is an
> opensource project. This is a time of transition, so changes are happening
> albeit slowly. I myself am not quite sure where the .com / .org separation
> heads, but there is plenty of discussion and you can trust that I am on the
> side of the community and the .org world.
> >>>
> >>> The bonus is that askmonty.org has been removed!
> >>>
> >>> Stay tuned for more Mark.
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>> -colin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Kristian Nielsen <
> knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> It's 17.09 today, and we've hit 50,160 total downloads (this number
> is
> >>>>> considered company-internal, we don't share this number externally).
> >>>>
> >>>> "company-internal"? What have you been smoking? Colin, you are
> supposed to be
> >>>> the community guy for crying out lout :-(
> >>>>
> >>>> This is *completely*, utterly unacceptable.
> >>>>
> >>>> MariaDB is a community project. We are about openness. We are about
> working
> >>>> together, all of us, to create a better world. We are *not* some
> individuals
> >>>> or companys playground.
> >>>>
> >>>> So no, the community's usage numbers of its own project is not
> "internal",
> >>>> thank you very much.
> >>>>
> >>>> So please cut out the crap already.
> >>>>
> >>>> - Kristian.
> >>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Mark Callaghan
> >>>> mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist
> >>> MariaDB | t: +6-012-204-3201 | Skype: colincharles
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Roberto Spadim
> >> SPAEmpresarial
> >
> > --
> > Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist
> > MariaDB | t: +6-012-204-3201 | Skype: colincharles
> >
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