On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like we really depend on MariaDB having strong support in the future, as an open source infrastructure requirement. We moved to Maria in part because Oracle is a terrible terrible steward of open source, including MySQL.
Yes, this is part of the reason why I'm considering a donation to them - they're definitely in start-up mode, and we want them to survive.
We can continue to handle these kinds of gifts as a very rare, discretionary thing for now (and I may want to move forward with MariaDB because a) they asked, b) they need support, c) we need them to survive), and focusing (per other comments in this thread) more on how we can build systems around grants for tools that directly support content contributors.
Erik