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MySQL Winter of Code

What happened to the MySQL Winter of Code? Are they waiting for winter in Australia?

I live near Boston, MA and I can tell you it's definitely winter in the northern hemisphere....

So what are we waiting for?

Well, I can say this -- we're waiting for people. The Winter of Code idea is a great one, particularly since if MySQL works with academic institutions they could help students find Master's Projects or part of Ph.D. work. Imagine someone writing a new storage engine and having that earn them a Master's degree. This is exactly what MySQL needs -- more people who understand database internals and best theoretical practices to start coding and see where it goes. Note the "more people" -- they already have staff that does this.

I'm guessing the Winter of Code is nonexistent because of other big announcements that have been happening; still, I would love to see some collaboration with institutions and universities to give incentives to participants and push them to do it. Class credit or fulfilling graduate requirements would be perfect, and there would be many submissions.

Tying together MySQL and universities would be a great leap forward and a very important move for MySQL, as it would generate more contributions to the code. And the contest!

[...] When winter warms up,

[...] When winter warms up, it slowly turns into summer. But the coding work remains. Colin Charles was smart enough to combine these two facts with Sheeri Kritzer’s blog entry and hints about the Australian Winter, and took action related to the Google Summer of Code. Colin spoke to Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn of Google and has now signed us up for Google Summer of Code. [...]

Hi! Unfortunately, the

Hi! Unfortunately, the community team and other teams have been swamped recently with so many projects and too few people :) We decided to table the effort until next year so we could spend a good amount of time and effort on it. The last thing we wanted to do is a half-hearted job.

Cheers,

Jay