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- 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.
- Lmao totally, like imagine if every car had the logo of who made it on itby slowcache
- Don't all adidas sneakers have the three line design on them?by adzm
- People are getting so pissy over this haha. What a nothingburger.
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.
- 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?by wavemode
- (2025)by petecooper
- More precisely, originally submitted in 2025 but wasn't merged until this yearby LorenDB
- 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.by BalinKing
- 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 PostgreSQLby INTPenis
- Kind of agree, though using MariaDB is infinitely easier on Windows than Postgres.
- It was picked as the KPI for someone responsible for community / communications?by nikanj
- Is there a particular reason why they're looking for Github stars?by melodyogonna
- Also wondering, maybe they're just trying to get more publicity in general?
Do github stars really mean much anymore anyway?
- I'm told there is a category of VC who picks their investments based on github stars.
- 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.
by adzm - 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.
- It will be interesting to see the uptick in stars if any.
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.
- idk, this kind of thing is a "what if everyone did it?" kind of thing. It just results in the whole channel turning to noise. But then I have developed pretty significant banner blindness despite using adblock such that attempts to grab my attention will often result in being completely ignored.by rcxdude
- The thing about the two women crawling on the road at night is the stuff of nightmares. I once saw two women - a mother and daughter - drunkenly rolling on the road at a major junction late at night. There was no way on earth a driver coming the other way would have seen them. I had to get out of my vehicle, run across and pull them out of the road. You can imagine their delight and gratitude /s. It was truly scary.by scandox