Debian MySQL Team
Infrastructure
Website: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL
Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mysql/
Mailing List Archive: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/
Ubuntu mysql-5.5: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5
MySQL upstream bugs: http://bugs.mysql.com/search.php
MySQL upsteam doc: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/index.html
Packages overview: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
Interacting with the team
Read the FAQ first: FAQ
Email contact: <pkg-mysql-maint AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>
Request tracker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-mysql-maint%40lists.alioth.debian.org
IRC Channel: #debian-mysql on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
Task description
Packaging of MySQL and related software and cooperation with the wider community around MySQL. The immediate goals centre around the mysql-5.5 package:
Get mysql-5.5 into testing before the Debian freeze and mysql-5.1 out.
Get ?Ubuntu and Debian versions identical or at least as close as possible.
Get the package lintian clean
Get the package piuparts clean
Get on top of the bugs (build install client library ubuntu delta)
Have just one mysql source package
Package the clones as well but factoring out the common work
Get involved
Liaising with the Internationalization Team
Update the FAQ
Basic bug triage: merging, moreinfo and forwarded
Higher bug triage: reproducibility and patching
Applying for write access to the repository
Other stuff
?Differences between Ubuntu and Debian