[Maria-docs] the storage engine formerly known as Maria
Hello everyone,
If you haven't heard, the name of the Maria storage engine is going to change to "Aria". See: http://askmonty.org/blog/rename-maria-contest-winner/
With the name being changed I wanted to solicit opinions on how to manage the change on askmonty.org, the KB, and elsewhere.
It's not too hard to search and replace instances of the word Maria with Aria (where Maria is refering to the storage engine and not the person, of course). The main question is when. 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?
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.
I'm also copying the community team on this, since they may have some good input on this.
Thanks.
Most of my colleagues haven't heard about Maria until I mentioned it to them.
I guess renaming it Aria is okay without having to worry about confusion on MariaDB and Aria. I'm guessing only us, people in this mailing list knew of its existence.
I say we start renaming now.
Regards.
Mj Mendoza IV, Developer, KonsolScript http://www.konsolscript.org
Developer, Clash http://geesas.sourceforge.net/clash
________________________________ From: Daniel Bartholomew dbart@askmonty.org To: Maria Docs maria-docs@lists.launchpad.net Cc: Monty Program Community Team community@askmonty.org Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:15:04 AM Subject: [Maria-docs] the storage engine formerly known as Maria
Hello everyone,
If you haven't heard, the name of the Maria storage engine is going to change to "Aria". See: http://askmonty.org/blog/rename-maria-contest-winner/
With the name being changed I wanted to solicit opinions on how to manage the change on askmonty.org, the KB, and elsewhere.
It's not too hard to search and replace instances of the word Maria with Aria (where Maria is refering to the storage engine and not the person, of course). The main question is when. 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?
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.
I'm also copying the community team on this, since they may have some good input on this.
Thanks.
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
Hello all,
I purposely did not reply to this thread until now to give anyone who wanted to comment ample time to do so.
Thanks to those who responded.
Just to review:
Daniel> I see at least three possible courses of action: Daniel> Daniel> 1. Make the change now Daniel> 2. Wait for the change to be commited to bzr and then make the Daniel> change Daniel> 3. Wait for the change to be released in a version of MariaDB Daniel> and then make the change Daniel> Daniel> Any preferences/thoughts on this?
Mj> Most of my colleagues haven't heard about Maria until I mentioned Mj> it to them. Mj> Mj> I guess renaming it Aria is okay without having to worry about Mj> confusion on MariaDB and Aria. I'm guessing only us, people in this Mj> mailing list knew of its existence. Mj> Mj> I say we start renaming now.
Sergei> I think 1 or 2 is the way to go, with 1 being preferred as it Sergei> needs no coordination - changes to the manual and the code can Sergei> be done independently. The detail is - after replacing names in Sergei> the manual, a Maria (engine) page, which will be called Aria, Sergei> of course, should have a note in red right after the title, Sergei> like this: Sergei> Sergei> Aria engine Sergei> ----------- Sergei> <red>Note: Aria engine was previously called Maria (see Sergei> url-to-rename-contest) and you may occasionally see it called Sergei> that way if you have older version of the MariaDB bla bla Sergei> bla ... </red>
Like Mj and Sergei (and others who replied directly to me), I'm thinking we should just make the change now. I like the idea of a central renaming note.
I'll focus on making the change to the KB first, since the current wiki setup is going to be replaced by it (hopefully soon). Once finished with the KB, I'll change the wiki pages (if the wiki is still around).
Daniel> Once we have a consensus on the timing there is the question of Daniel> how to word the change. Do we change the text: "The Maria Daniel> storage engine" to "The Aria storage engine" or do we change it Daniel> to "The Aria (formerly Maria) storage engine" (or something Daniel> similar)? If there is a lack of strong opinions on this I'll Daniel> just pick one and do it consistently everywhere.
Sergei> it naturally follows from the above that the engine should be Sergei> called "Aria" everywhere, not "Aria (formerly Maria)", because Sergei> the "formerly Maria" part will have a dedicated place in the Sergei> note at the beginning of the page.
This is a good suggestion and my current plan is now to do it this way.
Thanks!
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Daniel Bartholomew -
Mj Mendoza IV -
Sergei Golubchik