my “mysql client fixes” branch on launchpad contains fixes for eleven bugs (nine of them reported on bugs.mysql.com).
don’t get too excited — these are all the lowest priority-level bugs, mostly typos in comments and documentation.
now i have to figure out the latest process for actually getting these changes into the official tree. there are different policies around how and when to push to trees since i was last doing any server development. from someone who is partially outside, it all seems very tedious and designed to make it impossible to fix anything. process gone bad.
the mysql server isn’t going to get the benefits of using a good, …
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