On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:17:56 +0300, Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi> wrote: Henrik> Daniel Henrik> Henrik> I glanced through some of the commits today and noticed Kristian Henrik> committing the new version of MySQL 5.1.38 documentation (man Henrik> pages and other free docs). Henrik> Henrik> The docs seem to include lots of references to where you can Henrik> download MySQL rpm's, where you can buy MySQL support, Suns Henrik> support lifecycle policies, etc. As part of your documentation Henrik> work, could you be in touch with Kristian and find out how you Henrik> could help in cleaning that up. Meaning: Either remove such Henrik> sections, or replace with relevant MariaDB information. I've now pulled lp:~maria-captains/maria/maria-5.1-merge and I'll take a look at the docs over the next few days and work with Kristian on getting the changes merged in. Henrik> While at it, I'd like to review the Readme file of MariaDB. Henrik> Could you help me with that (ie extract it from bzr and work Henrik> with me to rewrite it - so that I can just participate by Henrik> email). The lp:~maria-captains/maria/maria-5.1-merge README contains the entire text of the lp:maria README plus a bunch of other stuff, including notices for various pieces of included software and the licenses those pieces of code use. Most of these notices are fairly short, but some are quite long (in the case of innochecksum.c, the entire text of the GPLv2 is included). I don't know if all of these notices are needed. If there are any of these notices which can be removed, it would simplify the README. In the case of innochecksum.c in particular, if that notice is needed I think it would be better if we just point people to the COPYING file, which contains the GPLv2 text instead of putting a complete copy of GPLv2 in the README file. To get things started, I've attached the two README files (named so you know which branch they come from). The additions are pretty easy to spot by just viewing the files side-by-side, even easier with a graphical diff viewer like meld. Henrik> The Readme file we should fix before GA release. The other docs Henrik> are only semi-urgent. Agree. -- Daniel Bartholomew