As part of our ongoing MySQL Community engagement series, we are pleased to invite you to Public Discussion #5, taking place on July 15, 2026, at 7:00 AM PT.
Over the past several months, these public discussions have helped us continue the conversation around MySQL Community Edition, roadmap transparency, contribution paths, GitHub collaboration, and ways for the community to participate more actively in shaping the future of MySQL.
Following the recent blog post, “The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration,” this next session will focus on how we continue moving from visibility to deeper participation.
Transparency remains important, but participation is what turns feedback into action. Public discussions, GitHub Discussions, Design Proposals, Contributor Summits, and the MySQL Developer Guide are all part of the broader effort to make it easier for users, developers, DBAs, partners, and contributors to share feedback, discuss priorities, and get involved earlier in the process.
Save the Date: July 15, 2026
Please save the date for our next public community discussion webinar.
Zoom webinar registration
https://oracle.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_khcji3biT2m7myg6hDId4w
Time
- 7:00 AM PT — US Pacific Time
- 4:00 PM CEST — Central Europe
- 7:30 PM IST — India
What We’ll Cover
For this fifth edition, we plan to continue building on the themes discussed in previous sessions, with a focus on participation, governance, GitHub collaboration, and follow-up from recent community activities.
Planned discussion areas include:
Community engagement and participation
We will continue the conversation around how the MySQL community can participate more actively through feedback, technical discussions, testing, documentation, design proposals, and contributions.
Governance and clearer participation paths
We will discuss the next phase of MySQL Community engagement, including the recently published MySQL Governance Document and how clearer roles and processes can help support meaningful participation while preserving MySQL quality, stability, compatibility, and security.
GitHub Discussions, Issues, and Community Roadmap
We will share updates on the continued use of GitHub as a central place for technical discussions, roadmap feedback, feature requests, and contribution-related engagement.
GitHub Discussions are becoming an important space for community members to ask questions, discuss ideas, provide feedback, and participate earlier in technical conversations.
Contributor Summit follow-up and next steps
We will also look at the follow-up from the first MySQL Contributor Summit, held on May 26, 2026, and discuss how community feedback, proposals, and priorities are being carried forward.
This includes preparation for the next Contributor Summit, taking place on August 5–6, 2026, in Broomfield, Colorado. The next summit will continue the discussion with a stronger focus on proposal follow-up, roadmap prioritization, design reviews, contribution paths, and practical next steps.
Open discussion and Q&A
As always, we will include time for questions, feedback, and open discussion with the MySQL team.
Why This Matters
Across the first four public discussions, several consistent themes have emerged from the community:
- clearer visibility into roadmap direction and priorities
- easier ways to provide feedback and submit feature requests
- more transparent contribution and review processes
- better connection between discussions, proposals, issues, and follow-up actions
- stronger collaboration across the MySQL ecosystem
Public Discussion #5 will continue this work by focusing on how these conversations can become more structured, more actionable, and easier for the community to participate in.
The goal is not only to share updates, but also to create clearer paths for contributors and users to engage in ways that are meaningful and practical.
Continuing the Conversation
The MySQL community has always grown through collaboration. Code contributions are important, but they are only one part of the picture.
Testing, documentation, design feedback, benchmarking, technical discussions, production experience, bug reports, feature requests, and community education all help strengthen MySQL.
As we continue expanding public discussions, GitHub collaboration, Contributor Summits, and governance-related activities, we want to make it easier for more people to participate and help shape the future direction of MySQL.
Join Us
We encourage everyone interested in MySQL — developers, DBAs, operators, customers, partners, educators, open source contributors, and community leaders — to register and join the discussion.
Your feedback helps guide future improvements and supports the continued growth of the MySQL ecosystem.
Register for Public Discussion #5:
https://oracle.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_khcji3biT2m7myg6hDId4w#/registration