Article URL: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4262 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171068 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

Ask users to give MariaDB a star by having an extra line in the MariaDB client prompt: This change is done in a way that it is easy to cherry-pick to older releases, and the text can later be changed to promote something else once MariaDB has surpassed MySQL in GitHub stars. Plug? It’s not always welcomed.1 Not to mention the potential of a “we already hit 10K Stars” bug in the future. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md#fundraising ↩ Plug? It’s not always welcomed. Not to mention the potential of a “we already hit 10K Stars” bug in the future. Depends on the plug. Sometimes it is welcomed, like in the case of Thunderbird getting a new life once they started appealing to their users. Going past 10k stars is fine, the more the better. I think this type of request for support/visibility is a good way to appeal to users and show one easy way they can support the project. I was surprised to see this showing up in the latest LTS release, it turns out the Debian package maintainer added this as a patch to the Debian package for some reason. I expect GitHub star chasing from My First Node.js package, not a professional RDBMS. For reference, this is what you see when launching lazygit (68k GitHub stars) for the first time: