Show banner in server and client startup to drive community engagement
Suggest to users that they can support MariaDB development by simply giving a
star on GitHub. This patch experiments with how well such a banner works, and
may later change the contents to drive some other kind of engagement.
Client output:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 17
Server version: 11.8.1-MariaDB-5 from Debian -- Please help get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]>
Server output:
[Note] Please help get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server
Server output if built in git directory:
[Note] Starting MariaDB 11.8.1-MariaDB-5 from Debian source revision
1a9c3debfd6b1b16af4e501d3530b866b85c38a8 server_uid eNAjF8/wvUNM09/mSmh+k3a5o5w= as process 1359
Logs will also show as server output:
mysqld: Version: '11.8.1-MariaDB-5 from Debian' socket: '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 -- Please help get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server
Forwarded: no
Gbp-Pq: Name startup-message.patch