I think it's a good idea, as a decades long user of InnoDB. I hope that the work can be shared with other forks of MySQL

I mean great, but there are 0 commits in 2026 Github for MySQL. I think pretty much everyone is planning a transition to MariaDB or Postgres.

MySQL is a beloved OSS product and project. Losing influence over that would be a massive mistake by Oracle.

Citation: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commits/trunk/

yeah but it's Oracle. You want MariaDB now.