"Developers in the MySQL community are working together to challenge Oracle to improve transparency and commitment in its handling of the popular open source database, while considering other options, including forking the code. At a meeting in San Francisco earlier this month, a group of interested members of the MySQL community met to discuss recent concerns about the handling of the system upon which many had built companies and careers."
"Recent job losses at Oracle's MySQL core development team - the database's founding developer Michael "Monty" Widenius said he was "heartbroken" on hearing the news - and a dramatically falling number of commits to the project have led some to believe it is reaching a critical crossroads. Vadim Tkachenko previously worked for MySQL AB, the Swedish company that developed the database before it was bought by Sun Microsystems, which later merged with Oracle."
Developers and engineers in the MySQL community are mobilizing to press Oracle for greater transparency and sustained investment in MySQL, while evaluating alternatives including a code fork. Recent layoffs on Oracle's MySQL core development team and a sharp decline in upstream commits have raised concerns about the project's future and viability for companies built on it. Former MySQL staff and current maintainers at Percona and PlanetScale participated in a San Francisco meeting to weigh options. Community voices warned that feature migration to cloud and enterprise products plus staff reductions are limiting MySQL's development and pushing the community toward contingency strategies.
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