{"id":2560,"date":"2012-10-24T01:48:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2012-10-24T01:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:48:43","slug":"show-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/24\/show-contributors","title":{"rendered":"SHOW CONTRIBUTORS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we (<a href=\"http:\/\/mmatemate.blogspot.com\/\">Gerry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larsthalmann.com\/\">Lars<\/a>, Serg) had a mini-MySQL&#8217;er reunion courtesy of us all speaking at <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.highload.co\/\">HighLoad++<\/a>. Much thanks to the organizers for bringing us out here so that we could all catch up :)<\/p>\n<p>We had a chat about how SHOW CONTRIBUTORS got into the code of MySQL as we were giving ideas to HighLoad++ organizers to raise money for charity. I distinctively remember it had something to do with a charity auction at one of the older MySQL User Conferences in Santa Clara. This was when we had quiz shows! And it was at the UC in 2006 for a charity auction where all proceeds got donated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">EFF<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I see than Ronald has it in a <a href=\"http:\/\/ronaldbradford.com\/mysql-presentations\/MySQLQuestions.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, and Sheeri was just saving to get married but still <a href=\"http:\/\/sheeri.net\/archives\/62\">shelled out<\/a>. Someone who&#8217;s a little quieter in the MySQL community, Frank, has a distinctive <a href=\"http:\/\/mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/mysql-users-conference-what-quiz-show.html\">writeup<\/a>, who reminded me that I too <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/27\/its-nearly-mothers-day-what-a-gift\">talked<\/a> about this back then.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has changed since 2006. SHOW CONTRIBUTORS is now <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.mysql.com\/commits\/144728\">deprecated<\/a>, just like SHOW AUTHORS. As of 5.6.8, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.6\/en\/show-contributors.html\">removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will not affect how the database performs, but it certainly affects the &#8220;community feel&#8221; around MySQL, further cementing the idea that this is now a product at a very large company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we (Gerry, Lars, Serg) had a mini-MySQL&#8217;er reunion courtesy of us all speaking at HighLoad++. Much thanks to the organizers for bringing us out here so that we could all catch up :) We had a chat about how SHOW CONTRIBUTORS got into the code of MySQL as we were giving ideas to HighLoad++ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}