MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt(github.com)
36 pointsby petecooper5 hours ago8 comments
  • adzm3 hours ago
    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.

  • KolmogorovComp2 hours ago
    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.

  • wavemode8 minutes ago
    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?
  • giancarlostoro2 hours ago
    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

  • melodyogonna2 hours ago
    Is there a particular reason why they're looking for Github stars?
  • INTPenis2 hours ago
    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 PostgreSQL
    • giancarlostoro2 hours ago
      Kind of agree, though using MariaDB is infinitely easier on Windows than Postgres.
      • fhn2 hours ago
        Care to expand on this so perhaps Postgres people can attempt to make it better?
        • snapetom2 hours ago
          I've always hated how Postgres merged users, groups, and roles. Users and roles are different in Maria and last I checked, all three are different in Oracle.

          I can see how Postgre's evolved that way out of history, when MySQL was thought of as a toy DB. It seems like they added features as a reactionary action then merged them to simplify and now we have three things that are essentially the same. It leads to confusion organization by organization.

    • nikanjan hour ago
      It was picked as the KPI for someone responsible for community / communications?
  • petecooper5 hours ago
    (2025)
    • LorenDB3 hours ago
      More precisely, originally submitted in 2025 but wasn't merged until this year
      • pseudosavant2 hours ago
        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.
  • hiAndrewQuinn3 hours ago
    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.
    • adzm3 hours ago
      Don't all adidas sneakers have the three line design on them?