This chapter describes a lot of things that you need to know when
working on the MySQL code. If you plan to contribute to MySQL
development, want to have access to the bleeding-edge in-between
versions code, or just want to keep track of development, follow
the instructions in Section 2.8.3, “Installing from the Development Source Tree”. If
you are interested in MySQL internals, you should also subscribe
to our internals mailing list. This list is
relatively low traffic. For details on how to subscribe, please
see Section 1.7.1, “MySQL Mailing Lists”. All developers at MySQL AB
are on the internals list and we help other
people who are working on the MySQL code. Feel free to use this
list both to ask questions about the code and to send patches that
you would like to contribute to the MySQL project!
