[debian-mysql] Goals for December sprint

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Great overview Robie, thanks!

I'd also like us to review the package install/remove/purge
pre/post-scripts, as they are the same across all new versions of all
variants and while doing MariaDB I stumbled across multiple issues,
which some of I've fixed (and you should copy those commits over to
the mysql-5.6 git tree), and some of them are still unresolved and we
need to fix them together. I think this is a high priority since many
of the install/upgrade/remove errors people report bugs about are due
the stupid legacy stuff in these scripts, and due to design issues
like the /var/lib/mysql/*.flag system.

In addition I'd like to have a common and supposedly perfect systemd file
written and utf-8 as default charset in the common my.cnf.



2014-11-10 18:14 GMT+02:00 Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com>:
> Here are a list of possible goals, in no particular order. Please
> mention anything you think we should focus on that is not listed here.
> Also, I'd appreciate input on priorities. What is the most important for
> a) your own goals, eg. for your preferred variant; and b) for Debian
> generally?
>
> * Symbols file in a branch, even it can't be merged yet, so that we can
> prevent ABI incompatibility problems in the future.
>
> * Resolution of variant directory sharing, including technical
> implementation if necessary.
>
> * Transition of MySQL from 5.5 to 5.6.
>
> * Review and squash outstanding bugs.
>
> * Improve build process (eg. use parallel builds).
>
> * Make all build tests reliably pass, and remove any testing that isn't
> useful to speed up the build.
>
> * Make all dep8 tests reliably pass, and remove any tests that aren't
> useful to speed up testing.
>
> * Land Percona server in Debian (experimental?) and Vivid.
>
> * Review common packaging code shared across variants and consider
> eliminating it where reasonable and possible. For example: is it
> possible to arrange things so that we can maintain common code in one
> place?
>
> * Appropriate items from
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/MariaDBPlan#TODO
>
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