Last month I spent two days in Belgium, after I got invited to the
MySQL distro meeting. It was a non-public meeting with some people from
Sun Microsystems and MySQL maintainers from different Linux distributions. It took place directly after
FOSDEM (which I unfortunately could not attend due to personal reasons) at the Sun Microsystems Belgium office in Brussels. It was great to meet with Mathias Gug from the
Ubuntu Server team in person. He had some really good ideas on how we could reduce the differences between MySQL in
Debian and Ubuntu in the future. As a consequence, Debian will soon switch from
Subversion to
Bazaar for maintenance of most MySQL packages.
However, we were not only talking about the MySQL Server itself, but also about MySQL Cluster, MySQL Proxy, the MySQL Connectors and the MySQL GUI Tools.
Giuseppe Maxia has a more detailed
blog entry about the event, including the whole list of participants and some pictures. I fully agree with him: The meeting was a success, we also had a lot of fun, and we should do that more often!
Thanks a lot to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring, and of course to
Lenz Grimmer for organizing the event.
Update: Forgot to link to the
slides of the talk about MySQL in Debian that I have given at the event.