On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 7:04 AM Jan Kurik <jkurik@redhat.com> wrote:
= Proposed Self Contained Change: MySQL 8 =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MySQL_8


Owner(s):
  * Michal Schorm <mschorm at redhat dot com>


Update of MySQL ( community-mysql package) in Fedora from 5.7  to 8.0 version.



== Detailed description ==
Update of MySQL package in Fedora from 5.7 version to 8.0 version.


== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
**Release MySQL 8.0.11 to Rawhide (done)
**Check software that requires community-mysql package (done, only
mysql-connector-odbc)
**Gather user input on the changes between mysql 5.7 and 8.0

* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

* Release engineering:
https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7486

** List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)


I remember when MariaDB was first released, it and MySQL were compatible replacements for one another and this assumption was baked into plenty of other packages. Is this still true, and if not are there plans to coordinate with other packages to update things like client connector dependencies?