For a long time, MyDumper has been in Max Bubenick’s personal GitHub repository. Now, we decided to move to a new MyDumper’s Organization as requested earlier this year by a user from the community.
There were also two other reasons why we decided to move it. The first one is related to how the project is evolving, and the second is that it will allow us to implement integrations to other projects.
We can see the evolution of the project, noting the increase in commits of the last year:
We tried to keep the release cycle every two months, focusing on closing as many bugs as possible and implementing new features requested. It was not an easy task, as lots of changes had to be implemented in mydumper and myloader engine to allow the new features to be developed.
Seeing the progress that has been done, we can encourage ourselves and expect to release version 1.0.1 next year. This will be a huge step for the project, as it will mean that MyDumper is mature enough to endeavor easily any export/import task.
On the other hand, moving MyDumper to an Organization will allow us to create an official Docker image and it will also allow us to create a pipeline with CircleCI. Both are on the Community wish list but it will be also useful for current and future development members, as one of the most important and difficult tasks is related to testing because of the number of use cases that we have. We expect to see higher quality on releases, not just because of the quality of code, but also because the tests cover most of the uses of mydumper and myloader.
