Thanks Otto, we will implement the other suggestions. However, while the MariaDB topic does exist, it's not as good as it could be, and it's not a curated topic. See https://github.com/topics/mariadb and https://github.com/github/explore/tree/master/CONTRIBUTING.md?source=add-description-mariadb

For making updates here, the contribution guidelines state "If you are a direct employee of a company creating the project, or the creator and sole maintainer, it's unlikely to be accepted" so it's not something we can do directly. Would you be interested in curating the topic?

On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 2:48 AM Otto Kekäläinen <otto@kekalainen.net> wrote:

Thanks, I see now that https://github.com/mariadb/server has been
updated to have the topic and website link, MariaDB itself can now be
found at https://github.com/topics/mariadb :)

If you add a social media pic
(https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/customizing-your-repositorys-social-media-preview)
the MariaDB box will look nicer.

Additionally I would recommend you update the README.md. For example
the link https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss should be replaced with
a new address. I am sure you spot many more things that can be
improved.

You may seek more inspiration on what to improve in the README by
browsing the top projects at https://github.com/topics/mariadb.
Projects that have more stars than MariaDB are probably are probably
doing their README better, and thus are good role models to imitate.

For example open in two browser windows side-by-side and compare
* https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/develop/README.md
* https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/11.5/README.md

You could also consider adding a /profile/README.md for enhanced
GitHub "looks", see details at
https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/collaborating-with-groups-in-organizations/customizing-your-organizations-profile

Some of you might be asking **why does this matter?** At the moment
MySQL GitHub popularity is growing by 110 stars per month, and MariaDB
only by 55. GitHub stars is a metric both for tracking and inducing
popularity among developers, and if MariaDB isn't more popular than
MySQL among developers, it will become marginalized in the database
industry.

- Otto