I went to Zendcon (the official PHP conference) this year and met Jay Pipes. He's a very colorful character who happens to be on the Sun payroll doing open source stuff (used to be the MySQL spokesman and now works on Drizzle). I read him off and on because he sometimes has good insight into SQL (his Join-Fu slides (/archives/239-Slides-for-Join-Fu-The-Art-of-SQL-I-and-II.html) are a must read for anyone who uses MySQL).
Anyways, he stirred the pot recently with his post advocating MySQL basically start over (/archives/276-My-advice-to-MySQL.html). The meat of the post
I figured this could be an interesting discussion since people here actually compile the stuff and use it. So what are your thoughts?Clean up the abysmal messiness of the code base: Refactor, decruft, and standardize the code base to a C99 (minimal), warning-free, environment that uses stdint, stdbool, proper STL templates, and other stuff that is now standard for 5+ years. Clear your heads of the premature optimization syndrome that infects the code base and makes it messy and cluttered. You will find that there are many community resources that would be happy to help in this effort.
