Really, they should have merged this into some competing database for optimal marketing, like MongoDB. This is kind of like if you bought an Adidas sneaker and it said Adidas on it, like, yeah. I know.
I'm okay with this. Seems like they are going about it responsibly enough. Really don't understand the vitriol behind the response near the end either.
I would prefer it if there were more things like this. Or a randomly chosen line from a set for example.
What's the point of such a famous database getting more stars on GitHub? Maybe my perspective is different but to me MariaDB is the default choice of relational DB after PostgreSQL
I would argue that it shouldn't say "10k stars" tweak the verbiate to simply state: "Support MariaDB with a simple gesture by starring the project on GitHub at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server"
Edit: They finalized on something more generic it seems.
Seriously, it's a wild (and heart-breaking) story about js-core maintainer adding a similar line for funding, receiving many hateful answers, while in debt and even going to prison, then not being able to leaveRussia, just for the sake of continuing to maitain his FOSS lib.
I've posted it as a separate entry because it definitely needs more visibility.
I see nothing wrong with this, neither in principle nor in practice. Also, this was merged over 6 months ago without incident. What is the purpose of this HN submission?
I'm not a DBA or sysadmin, but naïvely I feel like there's a difference between adding it to the client prompt and adding it to the server log. One-time startup messages in prompts/REPLs/etc. are noise (most of the time) anyway, but I feel like I'd expect logs to only contain things actually relevant to the operation of the software. Curious if anyone else feels this way.
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Edit: They finalized on something more generic it seems.
https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4262/files
The real gold in this thread however is the link to https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...
Seriously, it's a wild (and heart-breaking) story about js-core maintainer adding a similar line for funding, receiving many hateful answers, while in debt and even going to prison, then not being able to leaveRussia, just for the sake of continuing to maitain his FOSS lib.
I've posted it as a separate entry because it definitely needs more visibility.
This is a cute little harmless logging line.
I'm going to assume all the noisy dissenters are MySQL maintainers, because that head-canon is much funnier.