Development

General Development Information

• What is in the different MariaDB releases?
  You can find more information about the main features and goals of the diff...
• Plans
  MariaDB Development Plans
• Where are other users and developers of MariaDB?
  The MariaDB project is hosted on Launchpad. A good way to get started is t...
• Contributing to the MariaDB Project
  Why Contribute? The success of MariaDB depends on the participation of the...

MariaDB Release Information

• Release Notes
  MariaDB Release Notes
• Changelogs
  MariaDB Changelogs
• Release Criteria
  The MariaDB team can only promise to cover bugs in Aria or code that we hav...
• Release Process
  Procedures for doing a MariaDB release This page documents the release proc...
• Release Coordinator
  To drive a team working on a release or other project, we use the concept ...

MariaDB Internals Documentation

• Contributing Code
  This page contains general guidelines and procedures for contributing code...
• Writing Plugins for MariaDB
  About Generally speaking, writing plugins for MariaDB is very similar to wr...
• Merging into MariaDB
  Merging from MySQL into MariaDB Merging code changes from MySQL bzr reposit...
• Extending CREATE TABLE
  Since MariaDB 5.2, a storage engine can allow the user to specify additiona...
• Pluggable Authentication
  In MariaDB 5.2 the authentication of users is delegated to plugins. Two plu...
• Using MariaDB with your programs (API)
  
• Storage Engine Development
  

MariaDB Development Tools

• Setting up and using Bazaar (bzr) with MariaDB
  Tricks and tips how to use bzr, the source control system MariaDB and MySQL use.
• Compiling MariaDB From Source
  
• Buildbot
  Pages about buildbot.
• FTP
  Monty Program Ab has provided an FTP server for uploading test results. To ...
• IRC
  Most of the day-to-day communication among active MariaDB developers is don...
• Worklog
  None Worklog has been replaced, please refer to [[jira-project-planning-an...
• JIRA - project planning and tracking
  JIRA is the tool that is used for project planning and tracking in MariaDB ...

Debugging MariaDB

• Reporting Bugs
  This page contains general guidelines for reporting bugs in MariaDB. Is th...
• Bug Fixing Policy
  The MariaDB developers classify all security bugs according to their threat...
• Debugging MariaDB with mysql-test-run
  Checking that MariaDB is compiled for debugging Excute: mysqld --debug --he...
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  How to produce a full stack trace for mysqld (The MariaDB server)
  When mysqld fails hard (core dump) it will, by default, write a stack trac...
• Debugging running server on Ubuntu with GDB
  ptrace protection and attaching GDB to a mysqld instance New Ubuntu release...
• Debugging a running server (on Linux)
  If your mysqld server hangs, you may want to debug it to know what happened...
• Limitations/differences with a MariaDB server compiled for debugging
  A MariaDB server configured with --with-debug=full has the following differ...

Quality

• Code coverage
  We are working on getting more of the MariaDB source covered by our mysql-t...
• QA Tests
  Various tests used for QA
• QA Metrics
  Code Coverage and Bugs
• QA Datasets
  Realistic datasets are essential for proper testing.
• QA Tools
  Tools used for quality assurance testing.
• Optimizer Quality
  Generating queries, validating results, and so on
• QA - Aria Recovery
  General principles and tests used to ensure Aria recovery is solid.
• Benchmarks and Long Running Tests
  Here you will find details about our automated benchmark runs and long runn...
• Worklog Quality Checklist Template
  The purpose of this template is to produce individual checklists for testi...

Other Development Articles

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• Prerequisites to MariaDB Development?
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  RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 / CentOS 6 / Scientific Linux 6 packages
  Are you planning to support RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 / CentOS 6 / Scientif...
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  Wince client
  Hello, Is there a connector that is useable on Windows ce? If not will the ...
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  MariaDB and .Net
  Hello, Can you point me to a .Net connector for MariaDB other than the MySQ...
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  mariadb compilation flags
  how come mariadb is compiled on linux 64 bit with -O2 rather than -O3? mys...
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  Twitter patches in mariaDB?
  Hello! Do you plan to include some (or all) twitter patches for mysql, whic...