Anybody out there know more that one language?

We’ve got gettext going in the drizzle source now, and although we don’t have all the strings marked yet, we do have a start, and it’s time to get going on translating!

If you’d like to help out, just head over to launchpad, pick a language and get going! You may want to go to your launchpad settings and pick your preferred languages first, though, else the list of offered languages might be a little odd.

I’m guessing the easiest ones will be “English (Australia), English (Canada) and English (United Kingdom)” … but I could be wrong…

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This is the inaugural post in the weekly series "Last Week in Drizzle" where I summarize the efforts of various folks in the Drizzle community over the past week. There is a ton of enthusiasm and excitement around what is going on in Drizzle as evidenced by an explosion in the number of people tracking the mailing list and participating in coding, refactoring, testing, documentation, and general community efforts. As of this writing, 148 people are following the mailing list; this in only the second week since Brian announced Drizzle at OSCON. Pretty awesome. What is also cool is seeing a large number of MySQL engineers, consultants, and support engineers participating in the mailing list discussions and in the refactoring work.

There are now 34 folks chatting over on the Freenode #drizzle channel, and the …

The Drizzle Report is a weekly synopsis on drizzle development. This first report will contain more than just a weeks worth of development in order to catch up.

What has been removed from the initial MySQL source tree can be found at the MySQL Differences wiki page. Some of the highlights were the removal of the mysql database, TINY/MED/LONG BLOB, TINY/MED/LONG TEXT thespatial data types, and FULLTEXT indexes. Certain keywords were removed too like ENGINES, CLIENT and CONTRIBUTORS. Even drizzleadmin has been stripped down to just ping and shutdown.The long-standing MySQL ACL has been ripped out, and initial PAM authentication has been started.

Monty Taylor reports RIP: errmsg.sys, in its place is gettext which is a standard for outputting strings.

Comparing drizzle …

The Drizzle Report is a weekly synopsis on drizzle development. This first report will contain more than just a weeks worth of development in order to catch up.

What has been removed from the initial MySQL source tree can be found at the MySQL Differences wiki page. Some of the highlights were the removal of the mysql database, TINY/MED/LONG BLOB, TINY/MED/LONG TEXT thespatial data types, and FULLTEXT indexes. Certain keywords were removed too like ENGINES, CLIENT and CONTRIBUTORS. Even drizzleadmin has been stripped down to just ping and shutdown.The long-standing MySQL ACL has been ripped out, and initial PAM authentication has been started.

Monty Taylor reports RIP: errmsg.sys, in its place is gettext which is a standard for outputting strings.

Comparing drizzle …

Brian is merging in a patch I’ve been working on that kills errmsg.txt, errmsg.sys and comp_err. In its place is (currently) a header file with a static list of error messages and codes. To handle the i18n of the messages, we’re starting to use gettext. Not only is this a standard thing, but it makes it much easier for us to translate all of the rest of the strings we output inside of Drizzle. (turns out, there are quite a few of them)

Soon I hope to be uploading a .pot file to launchpad so that the i18n work can get underway.

Next on the list as far as this goes, re-working how all of the error message lists are managed internally, and doing some thinking on why we have our own charset stuff that isn’t the system iconv() based stuff.

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When I moved to the UK from Italy, now more than eight years ago, people asked me all the time "Why did you leave such a sunny place like Italy to move to England?". Well, first of all, the south east of England is not that bad. There is a decent number of sunny days in a year and the bright sky of a breezy morning is just fantastic. Second, my home town is Milan, in the middle of the Po valley, with foggy winters and humid summers, with temperatures between -15C and +38C over the year. And there is another point: no wind and no much rain, hence pollution. In Milan the pollution is so awful that almost one third of the working days in a year private cars cannot be used within the city, in the attempt of reducing emissions. When I was a child, my mum used to put a PVC cover over the washing line to avoid that clean clothes would get immediately dirty.

It is a long introduction, but it is probably worth it, because it fits almost …

Not really, it's about 90 degrees out and sunny here near San Diego. For a couple of years, I've been looking around to volunteer on an OSS project, and Drizzle really fits the bill. I've used MySQL for years, and have done some community support as well. I've been wanting to gain greater experience in technical writing, so Drizzle is the perfect project.

I'll be working on development & user documentation, and the weekly Drizzle Report. The Drizzle Report is a weekly synopsis on development and other progress to be posted on my blog Sunday evenings.

Be sure to check out the Drizzle Wiki. Launchpad is the home of the Drizzle project.

MySQL DBA & Programming Blog by Mark Schoonover

Not really, it's about 90 degrees out and sunny here near San Diego. For a couple of years, I've been looking around to volunteer on an OSS project, and Drizzle really fits the bill. I've used MySQL for years, and have done some community support as well. I've been wanting to gain greater experience in technical writing, so Drizzle is the perfect project.

I'll be working on development & user documentation, and the weekly Drizzle Report. The Drizzle Report is a weekly synopsis on development and other progress to be posted on my blog Sunday evenings.

Be sure to check out the Drizzle Wiki. Launchpad is the home of the Drizzle project.

MySQL DBA & Programming Blog by Mark Schoonover

I decided I’d be a good sport and try to do some build work for Drizzle on OpenSolaris to make sure we weren’t accidentally Linux-ifying something. Nevermind OpenSolaris installing an nsswitch file set up to not use DNS by default. Nevermind OpenSolaris reinventing the wheel for package management rather than starting with a package management system already in use by people (or and then fixing the things . Nevermind the GPL incompatible CDDL license… I’d be a good sport and give it (another) try.

I should add, in all honesty, I really do want OpenSolaris to be good. I think monocultures are bad, and I think Solaris can be useful in the growth of the ecosystem.

Step one. Install bzr.

pkg search bzr

Nothing. Wasn’t expecting much. That’s ok. Grab tarball. Unpack.

FAIL

Silly me. There is no sudo, so I had become root first (sure - I’m sure there …

Eric of Proven Scaling commented on a lack of IRC action in the normal mysql channels today when he visited the #drizzle channel on irc.freenode.net.

ebergen: I'm still in #mysql-dev and #planet.mysql but they are hardly active these days [1:51pm]
rbradfor: ebergen: funny, #drizzle is where the action is. [1:51pm]

There is active movement on the Drizzle project. Why is this? Well, I think most importantly is that there is active contribution from the community, at least 5 different companies and more individuals are pushing code to Drizzle, and it’s being accepted and incorporated. Something you can not say about the MySQL Community branch.

As I write this, there are 35 active people on the #drizzle channel now, and 137 members of the …