Database/Drivers/MySQL Native/Meeting Minutes

There are irregular meetings in the team developing the Connector/OOo (as it is called on MySQL side) resp. MySQL Native Driver (as it is called on OOo side). This page contains the minutes of those meetings (if we find somebody to write them).

2008-04-29

Attendees: Ulf Wendel, Ocke Jansse, Frank Schönheit

• introductions
  • People working on MySQL side at the project (in different roles, and to different degrees)
    • Ufl Wendel
    • Andrey Hristov
    • Lawrenty Nowitsky
    • Georg Richter
  • People working on OOo side at the project (ditto)
    • Ocke Janssen
    • Frank Schönheit
• various discussions on current state, next steps

• Ulf: we should test/QA different MySQL Client Lib versions with the driver
  • Frank: Necessity will vanish on the long run, since the driver will ship with its own version of the MySQL Client Lib, and be guaranteed to run with this, but no other versions
• Frank/Ulf: need to start exchanging current versions via version control system
  • AI: Frank: update child workspace mysqlnative to a recent milestone
  • AI: Ulf/Georg: commit current state of the driver to CVS
• Frank: some administrative stuff needed around the driver:
  • 'cause it's distributed as an extension, it probably needs to be productized (AI: Frank: find a responsible program manager)
  • Legal stuff will finally need to be clarified. Difficult at the moment, since the driver is based on / ships with a MySQL Client Lib, which does not yet exist as separate product, and will probably be replaced before the final release
    (Currently this should not be an issue, since the preliminary extension versions are hosted/distributed by MySQL, which has the rights for this lib, of course)
• Ulf: Documentation? => we'll add documentation for this to the MySQL Guide, and add references to it from other places, e.g. the OOo Help/Wiki
• Frank: architecture overview
• Frank: introduction to OOo-libaries vs. UNO Runtime Environment (URE) libraries
  • URE libs are guaranteed to be compatible forever, OOo libs might change the API/ABI with every single build
  • need to make the driver independent from the OOo-libs, to allow to use it for different versions
  • Ulf: should be one of the first steps then