Community Contributions
[edit] MySQL Community Development Program
MySQL invites Community members to assist with MySQL Server development.
Naturally, you can choose to enhance MySQL in any way you wish, independently, and without any communication with MySQL. However, we encourage you to contact the MySQL Community Contribution team (community-contributions <at> mysql <dot> com) when you consider to work on a MySQL enhancement. This can provide you with the following advantages:
- You can get a MySQL engineering contact assigned with whom you can discuss implementation issues.
- You can get help from MySQL for reviewing your code and providing valuable feedback.
- You can get MySQL to redistribute your code in a Community Preview version, thus providing your code with broad quality testing by our user community.
- Through this process you get the chance to better learn how to work on the MySQL code base and co-operate with MySQL Engineering.
- Following this process you raise the likelihood of your code ending up in a official MySQL Community Server release, because, using a co-operative approach, your contribution will likely better match the requirements we have for accepting patches.
If you want to enhance MySQL and be sure this work is interesting to MySQL we recommend to stick to the development tasks you can find below (Worklog items and bugs). For any of those items, we are ready to spend some time helping you. You can also suggest other development items (existing Worklog items, new Worklog items, or other bugs) than the ones below, no matter if you plan to work on them yourself or not. We will review such suggestions and decide what kind of assistance we can provide or if if they should be included in the lists, based on how this work fits into our roadmap and how it matches the broad interest of the MySQL userbase. Upfront, we can only commit to providing assistance to the items in the lists below.
For any questions on the MySQL Community Contribution Program, please contact the MySQL Community Contribution team (community-contributions <at> mysql <dot> com).
[edit] Worklog Items and Bugs Open for Community Development
Update: Now that Google Summer of Code has been announced, several Worklog items and bugs are also available for development under Summer of Code. For more information please check http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2008Ideas .