On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 at 23:57, Ian Gilfillan via developers <developers@lists.mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi!

Thanks for the suggestions. We'll take a look on our side at adding topics and improving the repo metadata.

So far no GitHub topics or mariadb.org links are visible yet. Could you please do it? It is no more than a couple minutes of work. Thanks! While at it, please also consider updating the outdated links in the README.md.

just for reference there was Jira item about already created (2022) https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDBF-391

This bug report states "There is no https://github.com/topics/mariadb". That is not true, nowadays there is a MariaDB topic on GitHub - ironically just MariaDB itself is not included in that topic. You can fix it with 1 min of GitHub settings update.

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-des... 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-a... ) 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-organi...

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

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-des... 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?

FYI, this has been live for some months now: https://github.com/topics/mariadb Reach out to Robin (CC'd) if you want to be a co-curator of the topic. - Otto