MariaDB 10.1 shipped a few days ago, so it’s now a good time to focus on another important event. Last week we had a three day MariaDB developers meeting. It took place in Amsterdam (Oct 13-15). Meetings like this tend to have a great impact on the roadmap of the product. Booking.com was very kind to offer their facilities for the developer meeting.

Thank you Booking.com!

The day before the developer meeting there was a MySQL meetup arranged at eBay’s office in Amsterdam since, naturally, a lot of MariaDB developers were already in town for the developers meeting. The meetup was done in lightning talk style where developers went through cool features in MariaDB. It ended up being a packed meetup with about 50 participants that lasted for about 3.5 hours. Many talks, great discussions, good pizza, and drinks!

Thank you eBay!

Back to the MariaDB developers meeting. In the end 60+ persons attended the developer’s meeting and every day we had close to that amount of people present. The attendees came from 10 different companies/organizations. There definitely seems to be interest in these kinds of meetings.

The schedule for the developers meeting included sessions about upcoming features in MariaDB like window functions, new things in InnoDB and Spider, but also tools used in development. There were also separate tracks for MaxScale and Galera, in which both current state and roadmaps were presented and discussed.

A very active contributor to the MariaDB project, Daniel Black from OpenQuery, had a very good presentation including how MariaDB is becoming/should become more than a fork and things learned from the field. The slides from the presentation can be found here.

I myself tried to pull together what was discussed during the days in one of the finishing sessions called “MariaDB 10.2 roadmap”. The slides from my session are available on Speaker Deck.

Help us focus on the things that matter by voting on feature requests in MariaDB project tracking. A list of features for 10.2 ordered by most votes can be found here.