Last Week in Drizzle - Vol 3

This is the third post in the weekly series "Last Week in Drizzle" where we summarize the efforts of various folks in the Drizzle community over the past week. This edition covers Aug 18th through the 24th. As with the week before, a number of developers and community advocates continue to refactor the code base, come together in discussions on the mailing list, and brainstorm on how to solve the tough problems that Drizzle is trying to address. It sounds like many in the community have been swamped this week, but there's still plenty to report. Jay Pipes and myself are tag teaming Last Week in Drizzle.

Continued Growth in the Drizzle Community

Drizzle mailing list has 191 members, up from 148 last week As I type this, there are 42 folks hanging out on the #drizzle Freenode channel. The Drizzle wiki has been steadily growing in its content, there have been a number of entries added or updated:

* Updated FAQ
* Simple Replication
* Table Definitions

Ongoing Conversations on the Mailing List

We've had less Bikeshed stuff this past week. Biggest topics discussed this week:

• Only Full Group By
• Transactional DDL
• BLOB/TEXT and default value
  
• SHOW VARIABLES

Community Blogs

Jay Pipes has written up two guides about Getting a Working C/C++ Development Environment for Developing Drizzle and A Contributor's Guide to Launchpad.net - Part 1 - Getting Started

Domas Mituzas blogs about his thoughts on Drizzle and modularity.

Brian "krow" Aker writes: Removal of code for views, some code removed for unireg and definitions. Table objects also created.

Drizzle Build Farm

Still seeking additional Build Bots. You can also find out realtime status about our buildfarm on irc #Drizzle. Details at http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/interacting-with-buildbot-using-irc-2008-08-18/

From last week:

Ronald has continued to champion the Drizzle Build Farm, and writes the following update and request to the community:

The Build Farm has helped us in identifying problems but we are still seeking people to contribute different platforms to our automated process become better.

Currently we cover the following platforms

- Ubuntu 8.04 - 32 & 64 bit - Debian 5 - 32 & 64 bit - Gentoo 8 - 32 & 64 bit - CentOS 5 - 64 bit - Fedora 8 - 32 & 64 bit - SUSE 11 - 32 bit - Mac OS/X 10.5 - 64 bit

See the wiki for how to contribute to the Drizzle Build Farm.

Final Words

That wraps up this week's entry. My apologies to anyone I missed in this edition. Feel free to add errata and additions to the comments of the entry and I will update the blog post accordingly.