{"id":2426,"date":"2012-07-15T00:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T05:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2012-07-15T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T05:49:01","slug":"eulogy-for-mysql-forge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/07\/15\/eulogy-for-mysql-forge","title":{"rendered":"eulogy for mysql forge"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the mysql librarian closed<\/a>, I didn’t think too much about it; it was a feature I probably never used. However this month brings the end of the mysql forge<\/a>. The MySQL Forge<\/a> was something I worked on while I was at MySQL so I am a little sad to see it go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now for a little bit of a history lesson. We wanted some kind of “forge” back in 2005, because sourceforge<\/a> was all the rage then (today, you can’t even find mariadb<\/a> or mongodb<\/a> listed there). We didn’t want to pay the exorbitant fees associated with sourceforge, so we investigated gforge<\/a>. After studying it carefully, it would only allow us to use postgresql<\/a> and changing the database structure for a rapidly developing piece of code wasn’t going to work for us; and we loved eating our own dogfood (mysql).<\/p>\n

This meant writing our own code, and thus was born the mysql forge. We requisitioned two machines (forge1, forge2) of which I cannot remember the configuration of now. The only component we didn’t write was the wiki (we used mediawiki<\/a>). What did we write? The interface to worklog<\/a> (which looks like it stopped being synced in august 2011), a place to share tools & code<\/a> (some 288 snippets, UDFs, scripts, etc.), and a project list<\/a> (which is what the forge provided – over 400 projects that have relation to working with mysql). And the wiki<\/a> had a chunk of documentation (over 600 pages).\u00a0<\/p>\n

We launched<\/a> the forge sometime in april 2006, probably at the mysql users conference 2006<\/a>. Apparently since then the wiki<\/a> alone has had\u00a011,236,211 page views. We hacked the wiki quite a bit, and upgrades were always a little bit of hell, but things like single sign on, SpamBlacklist, etc. had to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It seems like the new community resource is just that: community resources<\/a>. There doesn’t seem to be a link to the new worklog, so its difficult for the community to comment on future worklog entries. The wiki is now hosted at oracle wiki’s<\/a>, and it doesn’t look like all the content made it. For example I don’t see documentation for the random query generator<\/a> anywhere\u2026 And what about all the code snippets even if the project list has gone?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All in, it was great to work on code with jay pipes<\/a>, lenz grimmer<\/a>, dups<\/a>, and the feature driver giuseppe maxia<\/a>. One regret was never having opensourced the code behind the forge.<\/p>\n

Goodbye MySQL Forge. You served the community well for over five years.<\/p>\n

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