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[Maria-docs] Preparing to release MariaDB 5.3.4-rc
by Daniel Bartholomew 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

All, Monty has informed me that we are ready to release MariaDB 5.3.4-rc. I'm uploading the packages to the primary mirror now and if all goes well the general release announcement will go out tomorrow morning (my time). The source tree has not been tagged yet but the release is from revision 3402: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.3/changes To all the devs: If there is anything notable which I should make sure to include in the release notes, please let me know ASAP. Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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[Maria-docs] KB Macro Proposal
by Daniel Bartholomew 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

All, Based on an IRC discussion from yesterday, I whipped up a prototype of a couple of macros for use in code examples. The macros would be <<input>> and <<output>> and would be used almost the same way as the <<code>> macro (the main difference being that they cannot be used "inline"). For example: <<input lang=sql>> SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE d LIKE "%es%"; <</input>> <<output>> +-----------+ | d | +-----------+ | Tuesday | | Wednesday | +-----------+ <</output>> I've created a couple of prototypes (screenshots attached) of how it could look (hopefully the list will allow the attachements). I like v1 better, but I'm not enough of a css guru to know how to get the overflow to work right (I like v2 as well). The idea is to be able to easily indicate input and expected output for SQL (and other) examples and have it be consistent across pages in the KB. Thoughts? -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org

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[Maria-docs] Need input/proof-reading: semi-join optimization articles
by Sergei Petrunia 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Hi Daniel, I need input and proof-reading of the following new articles: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/semi-join-subquery-optimizations http://kb.askmonty.org/en/table-pullout-optimization http://kb.askmonty.org/en/firstmatch-strategy http://kb.askmonty.org/en/semi-join-materialization-strategy http://kb.askmonty.org/en/loosescan-strategy http://kb.askmonty.org/en/duplicateweedout-strategy (The request is addressed to Daniel so I get some guaranteed response. Feedback from everybody else is also welcome!) BR Sergei -- Sergei Petrunia, Software Developer Monty Program AB, http://askmonty.org Blog: http://s.petrunia.net/blog

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[Maria-docs] Request: "Save and continue editing" button in KB
by Sergei Petrunia 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hello, I think the KB article editor needs a "Save and continue editing" button, like it is done in WordPress. The reasons are: 1. A browser may loose text in edit boxes, so one is better is to save often. 2. Preview pane is below the text, so one cannot look at both; I end up having two side-by-side browser windows, one for viewing the original/changed article, and the other one for editing. For both reasons #1 and #2, when I press "save", most of the time I have to immediately press "Edit" to get back to editing (and then, in most cases, find the part of the text that I was editing before pressing "save"). Having "Save and continue editing" would eliminate the need to go back-and-forth and simplify editing for most users, I think. BR Sergei -- Sergei Petrunia, Software Developer Monty Program AB, http://askmonty.org Blog: http://s.petrunia.net/blog

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