MRE request: mariadb-5.5

[Marc Deslauriers]

On 14-04-26 04:40 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I would like to apply for a micro release exception for MariaDB.
> 
> MariaDB 5.5 is a binary compatible drop-in replacement of MySQL 5.5
> published by the MariaDB Foundation, an organization independent of
> Oracle.
> 
> MySQL has been approved for MRE on 2014-02-07
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions)
> with the motivations listed at
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2014-February/001812.html
> 
> The same motivations apply for MariaDB, including:
> 
>   - MariaDB Foundation policy is to support each major release for five years.
>     Version 5.5 will be supported until 2017 according to official policy
>     (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-maintenance-policy/)
>     and according to upstream developers they indend to release 5.5 branch
>     updates as long as Oracle does, and a bit after that too.
> 
>   - Micro releases happen from low-volume stable branches,
>     approximately once every two months.
> 
>   - The MariaDB repository includes thousands of tests and there is
>     a public continous automation system (Buildbot) which automatically
>     runs builds and tests suites for each commit.
> 
>   - As part of release preparations an even more extensive test suite is run
>     by upstream.
> 
>   - Tests are run on multiple architectures and distributions.
> 
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+1 from me.

Marc.