There has been some ongoing discussion since the end of last year about MySQL’s decision to change how often they release binaries for the MySQL Community Edition.
For those that haven’t been paying attention, at the end of last year MySQL decided that they will no longer commit to releasing binaries for all versions and platforms of their Community Edition. Instead, some versions of their Community Edition are labeled “source-only” releases. For example, 5.0.33 Community Edition was a source-only release.
People have realized that this means they will either wait longer between MySQL-released community binaries or else they need to build the binary themselves. Peter Zaitsev blogged at the time that he is hoping the community will establish trusted sources of MySQL builds for developers.
That’s exactly what we’ve decided to do.
Jeremy Cole, Dhiren Patel, and I have worked some late nights for the last few weeks and put together the DorsalSource site just in time for the MySQL Conference.
DorsalSource is a community-focused website whose goal is to provide builds of MySQL and related products. It will be maintained and run by the community. Solid Information Technology and Proven Scaling took the initiative to launch it, and we will add additional contributors over time.
DorsalSource currently offers builds of solidDB for MySQL and MySQL Server for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. In the future, DorsalSource will host additional MySQL-related products on a variety of platforms.
We are actively soliciting the participation of other contributors to help grow the community. If you’d like to learn more, please check our FAQ and Forums.
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