Presentation given in the opening session of the MariaDB Developers Meetup 2016 in Amsterdam. Thanks Booking.com for providing the venue!

1. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation1
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MariaDB Developer
Meetup 2016
October 6th–8th 2016
Amsterdam
Thanks Booking.com!

2. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation2
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The MariaDB Foundation is funded by
Booking.com, MariaDB.com, Visma,
DBS and many others.
Please support us to guarantee
that our mission succeeds!

3. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation3
The MariaDB Foundation and
Corporation are separate entities
● Similar to WordPress/Automattic, OwnCloud
Foundation/Corporation, BigBlueButton/Blindside.
● MariaDB Corporation is only one of the sponsors,
contributes 1/6th of the yearly budget.
● The Foundation staff do not work for the MariaDB
Corporation.

4. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation4
The MariaDB Foundation mission
Ensuring continuity
Make sure that MariaDB
continues to thrive and
stay maintained as long
as there are users who
need it.
Open collaboration
Be a place where
everybody can contribute
and collaborate using the
best open source
methodologies.
Drive adoption
Make sure MariaDB is universally available and included on
all major platforms, serving an ever growing community of
users and developers.

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Ensuring continuity
● The Foundation has the relevant
technical assets and tools (mariadb.org
website, version control repository, build
and release systems).
● The Foundation has copyright via staff
work and contributor work (CLA). For the
rest (some copyrights, trademark etc) the
Foundation has irrevocable licenses to
use (e.g. GPL, BSD).

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Open collaboration
● Publish code in real time, not just at release time.
● Discuss and plan on public mailing list and IRC.
● Public bug tracker, transparent progress and
priorities.
● Respond quickly to pull requests on Github and to
bug reports that have patches attached.
● Keep documentation up-to-date, develop
documentation alongside code and allow also
contributions in documentation.
● Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups.
● True open source, not just code dumps.

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Welcoming new contributors

8. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation8
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Foundation staff
● 7 people, including Michael Widenius
● Makes MariaDB available to as many users as
possible (porting, packaging)
● Single contact point for collaboration and
contributions
– Make sure all pull requests and patches are
responded to promptly and properly reviewed
– Respond at security@mariadb.org, collaborate
with security teams and publish CVEs

9. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation9
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Foundation development work
Focusing on issues that benefit as many users as possible
● Work with community contributors to steward patches
through the integration process
● Develop new features, tests, continuous integration and
QA, packaging, tracking sister projects, security etc
● Dedicated employee for documentation
● Grow new developers
● Maintain mariadb.org
● Increase adoption
● Connect users with specific needs to service providers

10. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation10
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Achievements in 2015
● Release of 10.1 for General Availability, includes
built-in Galera cluster support and new encryption
features (contributed by Google), better
performance and improved security features
● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 60
attendees
● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc.
● Increased community and adoption
● Read report at
https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/

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Achievements in 2016
● Stable release of 10.2 planned for December
– window functions, common table expressions...
– 10.2 presentation later today by Sergei G
● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 70
attendees
● Ported to MIPS, HPPA; refreshed for MacOS X
● Increased community and adoption
– Debian: from an option to the default
– WordPress.com

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”Given enough eyeballs all
bugs are shallow” – Linus's law

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Broad adoption
Google Trends

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Active development and use
Steadily increasing LOC
(10.1 branch / Ohloh.net)
DB-Engines.com
ranking of MariaDB
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40

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Growth pain

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Growth pain

17. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation17
There are plenty of
opportunities to contribute
Scratch your own itch!

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Big or small – everything counts

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Number of contributors?
(mariadb 10.2)$ git log --since='2016-01-01' |
grep Author | sort -u | wc -l
92

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Themes at the meeting
● Finalize 10.2
● Plan 10.3
● Plugins and storage engines: Galera, Spider,
ScaleDB, MyRocks
● Improve our QA processes and development
workflow
● Improve our release process and update flow to
Linux distributions
● Compatibility (backwards and sideways)

21. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation21
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Towards the best solution in the world
Using the open source software development model

22. © 2016 MariaDB Foundation22
Thanks!
mariadb.org
@ottokekalainen
otto@mariadb.org