Self introduction, and maintaining MySQL package

Hello, I have just submitted a request for rename of the package community-mysql "back" to mysql-community: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958131 See there for more details and rationale. I'm sorry that this took somewhat longer than intended to get out, I had some urgent tasks to attend do, such as getting the first development release of MySQL 5.7 out the door and its source to Launchpad. On the other hand. this also means we have already updated the 5.6 package from the initial GA release 5.6.10 to 5.6.11. Since I do not yet have a sponsor, I cannot upload to fedorapeople.org. Also, Oracle does not have public web host usable for ad-hoc uploads like this, so for the time being I have ulpoaded to my private web page here: http://home.online.no/~bjornmu/fedora/ Please excuse my ISP for thinking the file extension .rpm is music. :-) I have also run a koji scratch build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5317300 I've had some in-house expert help for preparing the new source RPM and spec file, but I will be responsible for keeping the Fedora packages up-to-date going forward. I have just ordered a laptop on which I will install F18 for this purpose :-) . Development/testing is also being done on a VM in our development lab running Rawhide. About myself: I waw at Sun since they acquired the small database startup I worked for in 2002. When Sun acquired MySQL in 2008, I was working with Release Engineering of PostgreSQL in Sun's own database group; I was responsible for integrating PostgreSQL 8.3 into OpenSolaris. After Sun scaled down its PostgreSQL efforts (I still build Solaris binaries for the PG community when they have new releases), I worked for a few years on maintaining the test framework that comes with MySQL, before I moved back to doing Release Engineering. Now I'm part of the MySQL RE team which is responsible for building and releasing MySQL and other associated products on all the platforms we deliver for, plus we run the large in-house automated build and test farm in the lab in Trondheim, Norway where I'm also located. It took a little time to get this (and myself) ready but future updates should come much faster. Regards, -- Bjorn Munch MySQL Release Engineering Trondheim, Norway