I'm okay with this. Seems like they are going about it responsibly enough. Really don't understand the vitriol behind the response near the end either.<p>I would prefer it if there were more things like this. Or a randomly chosen line from a set for example.
It will be interesting to see the uptick in stars if any.<p>The real gold in this thread however is the link to <a href="https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md#fundraising" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...</a><p>Seriously, it's a wild (and heart-breaking) story, involving a maintainer's fight against hate, debt, prison, isolation in Russia, just for the sake of making the world, including the biggest's companies, a better place.<p>I've posted it as a separate entry because it definitely needs more visibility.
I would argue that it shouldn't say "10k stars" tweak the verbiate to simply state: "Support MariaDB with a simple gesture by starring the project on GitHub at <a href="https://github.com/MariaDB/Server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/MariaDB/Server</a>"<p>Edit: They finalized on something more generic it seems.<p><a href="https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4262/files" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/4262/files</a>
What's the point of such a famous database getting more stars on GitHub? Maybe my perspective is different but to me MariaDB is the default choice of relational DB after PostgreSQL
Really, they should have merged this into some competing database for optimal marketing, like MongoDB. This is kind of like if you bought an Adidas sneaker and it said Adidas on it, like, yeah. I know.
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