On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Norvald H. Ryeng wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:07:22 +0100, Rahul Sundaram >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >>> MariaDB WILL replace MySQL on upgrades. >>> >> >> Well, unless Oracle as upstream wants to get involved as downstream >> maintainers in Fedora as well. They did offer to do that but don't seem >> to have stepped up yet. > > > Let's do it now, then. :-) > > We want to keep the MySQL package in Fedora and are willing to co-maintain > or take over maintainership if nobody else will do it. We haven't really > discussed this with the current maintainers yet, but from the discussions on > this list it seems they're not interested in maintaining the package after > F19. If us stepping up changes that, we are happy to co-maintain. > > Any input on how we can and should proceed is welcome. > The steps to become a Fedora package maintainer is well documented in the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers The package is not banned. Nobody is stopping a potential MySQL maintainer in Fedora. Best, Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
