To show our gratitude towards those who help us, and to help MySQL users help us even better, we will soon be announcing a “Quality Contributor Programme“. As we have identified the best contributors of 2006 based on submitted bug reports, I asked a number of people last Friday and Saturday whether they would accept to be listed on our Quality Contributor list on our website at dev.mysql.com.

I am overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of the response during the past 48 hours. Let me already now give some pre-announcement recognition to some of those who have helped us make MySQL better.

Don’t worry: we do understand that the main reason users report bugs is to get them fixed. However, we still think we have plenty of opportunities of improving our ways when it comes to making it easier for you to help us, even if our bug fixing capacity should remain unchanged. Expect to soon hear more about this from Giuseppe Maxia, our QA Developer in charge of the MySQL Quality Contributor Programme.

To be specific, we are looking at making it easier to not only supply bug reports, but also test cases and (something which is interesting only for a subset of all bug reporters) bug patches. That will involve legal aspects such as our Contributor License Agreement (which exists in a click-through form).

Hence, a big Thank You for your bug reports goes to

1. Martin Friebe
2. Debian user community
3. Heinz Schweitzer
4. Carl F. Karsten, dabodev.com
5. Olaf van der Spek
6. Peter Laursen, Webyog Softworks Private Limited (”Webyog”)
7. Jocelyn Fournier, www.mesdiscussions.net
8. Gisbert W. Selke, TapirSoft
9. John Yodsnukis, dbbd.net
10. Paolo “pabloj” Magnoli, pabloj.blogspot.com
11. Dave Pullin, ColdLogic LLC
12. Marc Castrovinci, Smartonline.com
13. Jeremy Cole, Proven Scaling LLC
14. Yoshiaki Tajika, NEC System Technologies
15. Roberto Spadim, Spadim Technology / Brazil
16. Philip Stoev, DBIx::MyParse
17. Stefaan “Annunaki” Lesage, PeopleWare N.V.
18. Frank Maas, Cheiron IT, www.cheiron-it.nl
19. Jasper Potjer, Gios Voice Professionals
20. Peter Brawley, Artful Software Development
21. Paul McCullagh, PrimeBase XT, pbxt.blogspot.com, www.primebase.com/xt
22. Sebastian ‘Cybot’ Mendel, phpMyAdmin Team
23. Felix Geerinckx
24. David Dindorp, Dubex A/S
25. Mark Johnson
26. Scott Noyes
27. Arkadiusz ‘arekm’ Miśkiewicz, PLD/Linux
28. Vyacheslav Kvasnitsky, Real Web Solutions, rws.com.ua
29. Joshua Kugler, pedahzurtech.com
30. Kevin Benton, amd.com
31. Andreas “Andi” Krüger, Biosigna Medical Diagnostics GmbH
32. KimSeong Loh , GlobaLINK Solutions Pte Ltd
33. Daniel Kasak, http://www.nusconsulting.com.au
34. Matthew Heald
35. Michael Wallner, iworks.at
36. Mick Francis, Deltascheme Ltd.
37. Alexander Hristov, Planetalia.com
38. Bill Karwin
39. Jérôme Despatis, Source RH
40. Christopher Yeleighton, formerly Infobright.com
41. Kevin Roberts, Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta
42. Patrick “petitchevalroux” Poulain, petitchevalroux.net
43. Paul Rivers, UC Berkeley
44. Ching Pong “Asuka Kenji” Siu, iconventure.com
45. Adam Dixon
46. Dan Kloke, GOTVdata.com
47. Peter Benjamin Volk, FOSS: www.ddengine.org, AMTC-Dresden (www.amtc-dresden.com), TU-Dresden (www.inf.tu-dresden.de)
48. David Shrewsbury
49. Anthony Willard
50. Peter Brodersen, findvej.dk

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