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MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

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Re: MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

#5
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.

Re: MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

#6

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.

Don't all adidas sneakers have the three line design on them?

Re: MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

#8
post #3

(2025)

More precisely, originally submitted in 2025 but wasn't merged until this year

Merged 6 months ago. This hardly seems newsworthy, even if it was at the time it was being merged. `enshittification` being thrown around for a single console line on a piece of software you probably aren't paying for seems like a supremely entitled free loading response.

Re: MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

#9
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.

https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4262/files

Re: MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

#10
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.

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