description is misleading

[Sheeri K. Cabral]

The project homepage says "This project and the majority of its code was forked from Maatkit (http://www.maatkit.org) in June 2011."

There are 2 things wrong here - first, it says it was forked, and 2nd, the date says June 2011.

According to:
http://groups.google.com/group/maatkit-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2565ba4046c3a23f/0e8c9ac795b029d6?lnk=gst&q=percona+commercial#0e8c9ac795b029d6

Baron himself says on July 6th that it's a "plan".... "We plan to create a Percona Toolkit". The launchpad page for the Percona Toolkit was registered June 4th, which is planning ahead.

Hrm....https://launchpad.net/percona-toolkit/+series shows that the first fork of maatkit was July 1st, 2011. Which is sadly before Baron's mailing list post, which means that was misleading to begin with. I would hope for more integrity than that. Regardless, July 1st is NOT June. I cannot find a source that verifies the code was forked in June 2011, and many that state or suggest July 2011.

Back to the first issue, and this is a bigger issue, but also deals with integrity. Saying "it's forked" is misleading, because Baron and Daniel are abandoning maatkit and aspersa in favor of Percona Toolkit as per:
- http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/09/01/want-to-hack-maatkit-and-aspersa-were-hiring/
- the banner at http://www.maatkit.org/, which clearly states "Maatkit has become part of Percona Toolkit, and there will be no further development or releases of Maatkit separately from Percona Toolkit."
- a similar banner at http://code.google.com/p/aspersa/

Please stop the misleading propaganda and lies. Aspersa and Maatkit are abandoned, taken over by the Percona Toolkit.

[Baron Schwartz (baron-xaprb)]

Thanks for the feedback, but this is not a bug.

[Sheeri K. Cabral (awfief)]

I agree, but there wasn't a way to add a "documentation request".

Whatever the 'category' should be (bug, documentation request, whatever), I see that the description is changed to not be misleading, so thank you!

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PT-874