Quality Contribution Program

Documentation

Project rules

• Accepted contributions
• Points calculation
• Levels and rewards
• Legal issues
• Full list of contributors

Articles

• How to submit a good bug report
• Creating a test case
• Code coverage basics

Tutorials

• Introduction to testing
• Testing with stored procedures
• Writing a test case: quick start

Useful links

• Contributing code patches
• Submitting a bug report

Contacts

• Visit the project forum
• Visit the project mailing list

Overview

The Quality Contributor Project goals are

• improving the quality of MySQL products, with the active co-operation of its community;
• visibly acknowledging the participants by attributing individual quality enhancements to them;
• rewarding the participants with benefits in proportion to their contribution;
• streamline the process of contributing to MySQL Quality for the benefit of both current and future contributors

How does it work

The contributions we're looking for are bug reports, test cases, code patches. Each one is evaluated with a publicly verifiable set of rules, and the contributor accumulates the points for all contributions submitted during the last 12 months.

Basic contributors are candidates with at least 50 points. They get a free subscription to MySQL Enterprise Basic. Contributors over 200 points get a MySQL Enterprise Silver. Going to 500 points will grant you a MySQL Enterprise Gold, and 1000 points will entitle to a MySQL Enterprise Platinum.

How to enroll

A candidate quality contributor is anyone who has contributed at least three verified bug reports, or three accepted test cases or one code patch during the last 12 months.

Contributors supplying test cases and bug patches will have to sign a Contribution License Agreement. The additional visibility is subordinate to their agreement to have their name published in our web site.

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