Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim@CommandPrompt.com> writes: > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 14:06 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> My understanding is they do accept patches from the community > I don't think so. Maybe Tom knows something about that -- he's applying > some patches to Red Hat's MySQL which are not in upstream. I've sent patches upstream by filing bugs in their bugzilla with suggested fixes, and AFAIR they've adopted them (or some other fix) ... eventually. They've not been amazingly responsive. The patches I'm still carrying are for things that I think they won't care to fix --- either because they're obsoleting the code, such as their local copy of bdb, or because it addresses Red-Hat-specific issues. It's not worth my time to try to get them to adopt such stuff. None of those patches have been large enough that anyone would think there was an interesting intellectual-property issue in them. I don't know what would happen if someone sent a large patch ... maybe they ask for a copyright assignment? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings