Heather VanCura, Oracle's vice president of community engagement, presented the second phase of the initiative to engage with the community and accelerate MySQL development. While the first phase focused on increasing transparency and involving the community in determining MySQL's development path, the second phase will focus on involving community representatives in development. Goals include accelerating innovation, providing clear paths for change delivery, and expanding the MySQL ecosystem.
To implement this vision, a Steering Committee has been established. It will include representatives from the community, determine MySQL's development strategy, and serve as a liaison with the MySQL ecosystem. In addition to Oracle employees, the initial committee will include representatives from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
The committee will address issues related to long-term development priorities, ecosystem expansion, project management modernization, community engagement, and community feedback. However, the committee does not serve as a replacement for technical leadership and will not interfere with day-to-day development processes.
To engage community representatives, a new governance model has been proposed, defining the following roles:
- Contributors write code, test, review, document, and participate in technical discussions. Contributors are not limited to Oracle employees and can be community representatives.
- Committers review changes and monitor code quality. Initially, the committer team will be comprised of Oracle employees, but in the future, committer authority may be extended to proven community members.
- Project leads are responsible for making technical decisions and planning development in specific areas such as tooling, optimizer, runtime, InnoDB, etc.
- Core Project lead, responsible for the MySQL Community Edition product.
- The Vulnerability Group is responsible for reviewing vulnerability reports, coordinating vulnerability fixes, and disclosing information about security issues.
The governance model was developed based on discussions at the MySQL Contributor Summit, which included participation from organizations such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Percona, ProxySQL, Readyset, VillageSQL, and the MariaDB Foundation.
Source: opennet.ru
