Syntax

SHOW AUTHORS

Description

The SHOW AUTHORS statement displays information about the people who work on MariaDB. For each author, it displays Name, Location, and Comment values. All columns are encoded as latin1.

In MariaDB 5.5 this is in somewhat random order.

In MariaDB 10.0.5 and later you have:

• First the active people in MariaDB are listed.
• Then the active people in MySQL.
• Last the people that has contributed to MariaDB/MySQL in the past.

The order is somewhat related to importance of the contribution given to the MariaDB project, but this is not 100% accurate. There is still room for improvements and debate...

Example

SHOW AUTHORS;
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Name                           | Location                              | Comment                                                                                                                                 |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Michael (Monty) Widenius       | Tusby, Finland                        | Lead developer and main author                                                                                                          |
| Sergei Golubchik               | Kerpen, Germany                       | Architect, Full-text search, precision math, plugin framework, merges etc                                                               |
| Igor Babaev                    | Bellevue, USA                         | Optimizer, keycache, core work                                                                                                          |
| Sergey Petrunia                | St. Petersburg, Russia                | Optimizer                                                                                                                               |
| Oleksandr Byelkin              | Lugansk, Ukraine                      | Query Cache (4.0), Subqueries (4.1), Views (5.0)                                                                                        |
| Timour Katchaounov             | Sofia , Bulgaria                      | Optimizer                                                                                                                               |
| Kristian Nielsen               | Copenhagen, Denmark                   | Replication, Async client prototocol, General buildbot stuff                                                                            |
| Alexander (Bar) Barkov         | Izhevsk, Russia                       | Unicode and character sets                                                                                                              |
| Alexey Botchkov (Holyfoot)     | Izhevsk, Russia                       | GIS extensions, embedded server, precision math                                                                                         |
| Daniel Bartholomew             | Raleigh, USA                          | MariaDB documentation                                                                                                                   |
| Colin Charles                  | Selangor, Malesia                     | MariaDB documentation, talks at a LOT of conferences                                                                                    |
| Sergey Vojtovich               | Izhevsk, Russia                       | initial implementation of plugin architecture, maintained native storage engines (MyISAM, MEMORY, ARCHIVE, etc), rewrite of table cache |
| Vladislav Vaintroub            | Mannheim, Germany                     | MariaDB Java connector, new thread pool, Windows optimizations                                                                          |
| Elena Stepanova                | Sankt Petersburg, Russia              | QA, test cases                                                                                                                          |
| Georg Richter                  | Heidelberg, Germany                   | New LGPL C connector, PHP connector                                                                                                     |
| Jan Lindström                  | Ylämylly, Finland                     | Working on InnoDB                                                                                                                       |
| Lixun Peng                     | Hangzhou, China                       | Multi Source replication                                                                                                                |
| Percona                        | CA, USA                               | XtraDB, microslow patches, extensions to slow log   
...

See Also

• SHOW CONTRIBUTORS. This list all members and sponsors of the MariaDB Foundation and other sponsors.