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[Kay Röpke <Kay.Roepke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Mar 16, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Jan Kneschke wrote:

> Diego Medina wrote:
> > [cut]
> > > > So, what do you think?
> > > I definately like the idea of having an 'official' script repo.
> > >
> > > There are some scripts at http://forge.mysql.com/search.php?k=mysql+proxy
> > > that might be useful to include/port into any new repository.
> >
> > Absolutely, we could take those as well. We know of a handful of
> > changes that broke some of those scripts, and having a repository
> > would make it much easier to keep up-to-date
>
> The repo should have a test-suite for the scripts same as we have it  
> for
> the proxy provides scripts too.


+1

So, who's volunteering to do the initial setup of the repo?

My intention for this was to be community driven rather than be  
operated by Sun/MySQL, since the entire point of the script repo is to  
have peer-reviewed scripts which do not need to be part of the main  
distribution.

This would mean:
1) Create a Launchpad project
2) Create a developer team owning the project and branch
2a) I think the dev team should be "moderated" like the drizzle- 
developers team is, so it's clear who can merge proposals into the  
mainline.
    Not everyone needs to be an admin of that team, but there should  
be at least a couple of people sharing the work, IMHO.
3) Optionally create a mailing list, though we could simply use this  
one since the overlap between them would probably be very high
4) Tell people about it (where to get stuff, where to join, etc) on  
this list, do blog posts etc.

We should probably think a bit about legal stuff, e.g. what licenses  
do we accept for the scripts etc.
I'd propose to stick to GPLv2 and compatible licenses, to make our  
lives easier (and to be in line with MySQL Proxy itself).

cheers,
-k
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