While doing some work for the MySQL MMM project, I got distracted and browsed around for a bit. I started searching for MySQL on google code, and then expanded that search into launchpad, sourceforge and of course forge.mysql.com.
I found that there are literally thousands of FOSS MySQL projects on these sites. No surprise really, but [...]
There’s actually no single “correct” answer! It all depends on
where in a stack the component lives;
the state of the market for that component region;
sometimes even geographic location of the user comes into play.
Yes, for OSS projects modularity is handy in terms of handling contributions, but modularity may not be the best way to deal with [...]