I've got few comments to my post on references to MariaDB in MySQL bug
reports (not in the blog, but via social media and in personal messages), and all
but one comments from current and former colleagues whose opinion
I value a lot confirmed that this really looks like a kind of
attempt to advertise MariaDB. So, from now on I'll try to keep my
findings on how tests shared by MySQL bug reporters work in
MariaDB for myself, MariaDB JIRA and this blog (where I can and will
advertise whatever makes sense to me), and avoid adding them to
MySQL bug reports.
That said, I still think that it's normal to share links to
MariaDB bug reports that add something useful (like patches, …
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Recently I noted that some of my comments to public MySQL bug
reports got hidden by somebody from Oracle with privileges to do
so. I was not able to find out who did that and when, as this
information is not communicated to bug subscribers (this may
change if my feature requests, Bug
#94807 - "Subscriber should be notified when comment is
made private", is eventually implemented).
When it happened for the first time I thought it was probably
non-intentional. When it happened for a second time I complained
with a tweet that got few likes and zero comments.
Recently this happened again and yet another tweet had not got much attention, but
at least I've got a comment via …
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