Hi, Daniel! On Jul 21, Daniel Bartholomew wrote:
Hello everyone,
If you haven't heard, the name of the Maria storage engine is going to change to "Aria".
With the name being changed I wanted to solicit opinions on how to manage the change on askmonty.org, the KB, and elsewhere. I see at least three possible courses of action:
1. Make the change now 2. Wait for the change to be commited to bzr and then make the change 3. Wait for the change to be released in a version of MariaDB and then make the change
Any preferences/thoughts on this?
I think 1 or 2 is the way to go, with 1 being preferred as it needs no coordination - changes to the manual and the code can be done independently. The detail is - after replacing names in the manual, a Maria (engine) page, which will be called Aria, of course, should have a note in red right after the title, like this: Aria engine ----------- <red>Note: Aria engine was previously called Maria (see url-to-rename-contest) and you may occasionally see it called that way if you have older version of the MariaDB bla bla bla ... </red> If you'll need this red text on more than one page, you could put it in a template, I suppose.
Once we have a consensus on the timing there is the question of how to word the change. Do we change the text: "The Maria storage engine" to "The Aria storage engine" or do we change it to "The Aria (formerly Maria) storage engine" (or something similar)? If there is a lack of strong opinions on this I'll just pick one and do it consistently everywhere.
it naturally follows from the above that the engine should be called "Aria" everywhere, not "Aria (formerly Maria)", because the "formerly Maria" part will have a dedicated place in the note at the beginning of the page. Regards, Sergei