MDEV-38328: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

[ottok]

Description

Ask users to give MariaDB a star by having an extra line in the MariaDB client prompt:

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 33
Server version: 12.2.0-MariaDB-1:12.2.0 mariadb.org binary distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Please help get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

Additionally, have this extra line in server logs:

[Note] Please help get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/server

This change is done in a way that it is easy to cherry-pick to older releases, and the text can later be changed to promote something else once MariaDB has surpassed MySQL in GitHub stars.

Release Notes

• none

How can this PR be tested?

• Start the server, look at logs
• Connect with the client to any server, observe the output

Basing the PR against the correct MariaDB version

• This is a new feature or a refactoring, and the PR is based against the main branch.

PR quality check

• I checked the CODING_STANDARDS.md file and my PR conforms to this where appropriate.
• For any trivial modifications to the PR, I am ok with the reviewer making the changes themselves.

[ottok]

Failure in test buildbot/amd64-ubuntu-2204-debug-ps seems unrelated to this PR:

plugins.server_audit                     w26 [ fail ]
        Test ended at 2025-08-26 06:46:53
CURRENT_TEST: plugins.server_audit
--- /home/buildbot/amd64-ubuntu-2204-debug-ps/build/mysql-test/suite/plugins/r/server_audit.result	2025-08-26 06:42:01.000000000 +0000
+++ /home/buildbot/amd64-ubuntu-2204-debug-ps/build/mysql-test/suite/plugins/r/server_audit.reject	2025-08-26 06:46:53.270007402 +0000
@@ -538,7 +538,6 @@
 TIME,HOSTNAME,ssl_user1,localhost:PORT,ID,0,CONNECT,sa_db,TLS_VERSION,0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,ssl_user1,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'SHOW STATUS LIKE \'Ssl_version\'',0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,ssl_user1,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'select variable_value > \'\' as \'have_ssl\' from information_schema.session_status where variable_name=\'ssl_cipher\'',0
-TIME,HOSTNAME,ssl_user1,localhost:PORT,ID,0,DISCONNECT,sa_db,TLS_VERSION,0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,WRITE,mysql,db,
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,WRITE,mysql,tables_priv,
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,WRITE,mysql,columns_priv,
@@ -548,6 +547,7 @@
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,WRITE,mysql,global_priv,
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'DROP USER ssl_user1@localhost',0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'set global serv',0
+TIME,HOSTNAME,ssl_user1,localhost:PORT,ID,0,DISCONNECT,sa_db,TLS_VERSION,0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'select (1), (2)',0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'select \'A\', ',0
 TIME,HOSTNAME,root,localhost:PORT,ID,ID,QUERY,sa_db,'set global server_audit_query_log_limit= 1024',0
Result content mismatch

[ParadoxV5]

Plug? It’s not always welcomed.¹
Not to mention the potential of a “we already hit 10K Stars” bug in the future.

Failure in test buildbot/amd64-ubuntu-2204-debug-ps seems unrelated to this PR:

It was recently filed at MDEV-37501.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md#fundraising ↩

[ottok]

Plug? It’s not always welcomed. Not to mention the potential of a “we already hit 10K Stars” bug in the future.

Depends on the plug. Sometimes it is welcomed, like in the case of Thunderbird getting a new life once they started appealing to their users. Going past 10k stars is fine, the more the better. I think this type of request for support/visibility is a good way to appeal to users and show one easy way they can support the project.

[Barmy]

I just saw it after launching the client cli and I came over to give my star

[notr1ch]

I was surprised to see this showing up in the latest LTS release, it turns out the Debian package maintainer added this as a patch to the Debian package for some reason. I expect GitHub star chasing from My First Node.js package, not a professional RDBMS.

[ottok]

For reference, this is what you see when launching lazygit (68k GitHub stars) for the first time:

[FooBarrior]

@notr1ch

I expect GitHub star chasing from My First Node.js package, not a professional RDBMS.

It's a free software, so imo asking for help with a github star is totally appropriate. Also, it's made by professionals, but not only for professionals -- it's for everyone.

[gkodinov]

Thank you again for your pull request! After discussing it internally we have decided that we will not be taking it in at this point of time.

[gkodinov]

After some more internal discussion (and MariaDB foundation management changing their mind about it) I'm re-opening the pull request. Are you still interested in working with me and Sergei (as a final reviewer) to get this in or should I take this over?

[ottok]

I've rebased this on latest main now so it is easy to merge if there are no further change requests.