[debian-mysql] Bug#793316: Bug#793316: transition: mysql-5.6

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> The wish of the release team and security team has been to keep just
> one MySQL variant. If such a decision is made, it must be made above
> the pkg-mysql-maint team as the team will never be able to agree which
> favourite is the best one.
>
> After Clint's MySQL 5.7 advertisement I am tempted to present what I
> like feature wise in MariaDB (in current and upcoming versions), but
> let's not start such an discussion, as this is not the time or place
> for such a contest. Let's just be happy that we have Free Software
> based options and competition that drives innovation forward for
> everybody.

Stupid question on behalf of a lurker: what would it take for Oracle
MySQL, MariaDB, Percona and any other MySQL forks to be merged into
one upstream project?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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