Call for testing: MySQL

I promised that more interesting things were going to be available soon for testing in Ubuntu. There's plenty coming, but today here is one of the greatest:

$ sudo snap install mysql --channel=8.0/beta

Lars Tangvald and other people at MySQL have been working on this snap for some time, and now they are ready to give it to the community for crowd testing. If you have some minutes, please give them a hand.

We have a testing guide to help you getting started.

Remember that this should run in trusty, xenial, yakkety, zesty and in all flavours of Ubuntu. It would be great to get a diverse pool of platforms and test it everywhere.

In here we are introducing a new concept: tracks. Notice that we are using --channel=8.0/beta, instead of only --beta as we used to do before. That's because mysql has two different major versions currently active. In order to try the other one:

$ sudo snap install mysql --channel=5.7/beta

Please report back your results. Any kind of feedback will be highly appreciated, and if you have doubts or need a hand to get started, I'm hanging around in Rocket Chat.