It’s that time of year again, and we’ve just had the presentations of the MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live. A more fulsome blog post will be written for the Community Blog in the next few days about the worthy winners. Meanwhile, though, here’s a summary.

Committee Co-Secretaries Emily Slocombe of Square, and Agustin Gallego of Percona presented these annual community nominated awards today. In four categories, the awards went to:

• Community Contributor of the Year: Weixiang Zhai
• Community Contributor of the Year: Valerii Kravchuk

Both of these awards were made for bug identification and submission. Valerii was represented by Vicențiu Ciorbaru of MariaDB Foundation who accepted the award on his behalf.

• The Application of the Year award was mad to Dbdeployer, for its incredible usefulness to the …

Last week, Oracle reported on the list of MySQL Community Contributors for 2019 and we’re proud to say that five serving Perconians made it to the list of 19 people recognized as such. Entries are nominated by the MySQL community and their nominations are assessed against six criteria by a volunteer committee of community mavens.

1. The most active code contributor
2. Bug reporter
3. The most active MySQL blogger
4. People who plays very active role in translation/documentation of MySQL articles
5. People who provides feedback on DMR releases, Labs releases, or change proposals
6. Anyone in the community who worked their butt off or did really useful work that you feel should be thanked publicly

The members of Percona who will be proudly wearing their community …