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by voodoo_child 381 days ago
One of the big problems is Oracle decide what does/doesn’t go in. Understandable, but they provide no insight into the decision making process, why patches don’t get merged, or even if/when they take it. They used to post worklogs for features they were working on which gave some insights, but they’ve stopped doing that now too. Imagine working on a new feature for months, submitting a patch only to find out oracle have went their own route, many people will just say what’s the point. Last updated work log was in 2021: https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/

Edit: As an example, one of the optimizations called out in this repo was submitted in October 2023. “Thank you for the report and contribution.” and then radio silence ever since.

https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=112737 https://www.percona.com/blog/what-oracle-missed-we-fixed-mor...