Hello!

(Stop reading if you don't use MariaDB)

I am currently preparing the upload of MariaDB 10.11.2-2 to Debian
unstable and aim for the highest possible quality. I am currently
doing the bulk of the testing and packaging alone and to make sure
that the quality is top notch, I would be glad to see more people
contribute.

If you have time to help, please consider these (in order of importance):

1. Review current open MRs at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests

2. Review items highlighted by Debian QA systems (Lintian, builds etc)
and submit a fix to improve the quality:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb

3. Review what testing we have at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/pipelines and
think about potential gaps - CI is very important as it is the only
way we can prevent regressions in a scalable way

4. Review/follow-up on existing bugs that currently need more
information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=mariadb&src=mariadb-10.6&src=mariadb-10.5&src=mariadb-10.3&src=mariadb-10.1

MariaDB and C++ skills are useful, but not required. For example
reviewing the NEWS for 10.11 requires no coding skills: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/37

- Otto

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On 2/23/23 17:22, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

Hello!

(Stop reading if you don't use MariaDB)

I am currently preparing the upload of MariaDB 10.11.2-2 to Debian
unstable and aim for the highest possible quality. I am currently
doing the bulk of the testing and packaging alone and to make sure
that the quality is top notch, I would be glad to see more people
contribute.

If you have time to help, please consider these (in order of importance):

1. Review current open MRs at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests

2. Review items highlighted by Debian QA systems (Lintian, builds etc)
and submit a fix to improve the quality: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb

3. Review what testing we have at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/pipelines and
think about potential gaps - CI is very important as it is the only
way we can prevent regressions in a scalable way

4. Review/follow-up on existing bugs that currently need more
information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=mariadb&src=mariadb-10.6&src=mariadb-10.5&src=mariadb-10.3&src=mariadb-10.1

MariaDB and C++ skills are useful, but not required. For example
reviewing the NEWS for 10.11 requires no coding skills: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/37

- Otto

Another issue,

My package depends on default-mysql-server, which doesn't pull
mariadb-server 10.11, but 10.6. As a result, I can't install both... :/

Can this be fixed?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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* Thomas Goirand [Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 04:00:43PM +0100]:

On 2/23/23 17:22, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

I am currently preparing the upload of MariaDB 10.11.2-2 to Debian
unstable and aim for the highest possible quality. I am currently
doing the bulk of the testing and packaging alone and to make sure
that the quality is top notch, I would be glad to see more people contribute.

[...]

Another issue,
My package depends on default-mysql-server, which doesn't pull
mariadb-server 10.11, but 10.6. As a result, I can't install both... :/
Can this be fixed?

This is #1029092 and Otto just marked the blocking bug as resolved
(thanks Otto!), so this should hopefully be fixed soon:

| % grep-excuses mysql-defaults
| mysql-defaults (1.0.8 to 1.1.0)
| Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers
| Migration status for mysql-defaults (1.0.8 to 1.1.0): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
| Issues preventing migration:
| ∙ ∙ Updating mysql-defaults would introduce bugs in testing: #1029092 | Additional info:
| ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/m/mysql-defaults.html
| ∙ ∙ 38 days old (needed 10 days)

regards
-mika-

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Hi!

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 08:22, Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello!

(Stop reading if you don't use MariaDB)

I am currently preparing the upload of MariaDB 10.11.2-2 to Debian
unstable and aim for the highest possible quality. I am currently
doing the bulk of the testing and packaging alone and to make sure
that the quality is top notch, I would be glad to see more people
contribute.

If you have time to help, please consider these (in order of importance):

1. Review current open MRs at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests

2. Review items highlighted by Debian QA systems (Lintian, builds etc)
and submit a fix to improve the quality: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb

3. Review what testing we have at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/pipelines and
think about potential gaps - CI is very important as it is the only
way we can prevent regressions in a scalable way

4. Review/follow-up on existing bugs that currently need more
information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=mariadb&src=mariadb-10.6&src=mariadb-10.5&src=mariadb-10.3&src=mariadb-10.1

MariaDB and C++ skills are useful, but not required. For example
reviewing the NEWS for 10.11 requires no coding skills: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/37

One more items I am requesting help with:

5. If you know C/C++ compatibility on armhf and care about e.g.
Raspberry PI your help would be very useful. Upstream does not
test/target armhf and there are many minor places in upstream code
that would need some armhf tweaks. You could for example install the mariadb-test package and run the full upstream test suite with 7227
tests and see which ones currently break on armhf (details in https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/grokking-mariadb-test-run-mtr/).

- Otto

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(re-posting one more call for help as so far I am doing most the
packaging fixes alone)

Hi!

I just uploaded mariadb 1:10.11.2-2~exp1 into experimental. If nothing surfaces, I will upload this to Debian unstable next weekend and it
will be the final version of MariaDB in Debian Bookworm.

If you want to help polish MariaDB in Bookworm, please help by (in
order of importance):

1. Review past commits in https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/commits/debian/latest?ref_type=heads
and post feedback/improvement suggestions on the maintainermailing
list (pkg-mysql-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org) so people can see
how many reviews happened and what they commented on.

2. Review open MRs at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests
about improvements that might still go into next upload, or a future
one.

3. Review general QA system feedback at
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb and post MRs to fix whatever
you found and want to fix yourself.

4. Review and triage/close open bug reports at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=mariadb&src=mariadb-10.6&src=mariadb-10.5&src=mariadb-10.3&src=mariadb-10.1


- Otto

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