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[Igor Babaev <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/19/2013 04:59 PM, Christian Convey wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> As I work through the Coverity Scan results of MariaDB's trunk, I find
> myself having to research what some functions do, and the meanings of
> their parameters and return values.  Rather than just recording what I
> learn on a piece of paper, I thought it might be nice to write Doxygen
> comments for some of those functions / structs / etc.  That way,
> perhaps other persons trying to learn the code base could benefit.
> 
> Here's the problem.  Based on Monty's blog posting about MariaDB 10
> vs. MySQL 5.6 ( http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ ),
> it's not obvious to me which files / functions / etc. in MariaDB have
> been forked from MariaDB, vs. which ones will be replaced with the
> corresponding MySQL code when the next MySQL release comes out.  This
> means that when I write Doxygen comments for a given file / function
> /struct / etc., I don't know whether to submit that comment patch to
> the MariaDB project or to the MySQL project.
> 
> Does anyone know I I can figure that out?

See in bzr who committed the patch and when the patch was committed.
MariaDB developers started committing their patches mainly in
summer/fall 2009 (there are some earlier patches from Kristian, Monty,
Sanja and, maybe, from Sergey Petrunia)

> 
> Thanks,
> Christian
> 
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