Change README to Markdown and fix Travis for 2.0

Converting the README into Markdown format makes it a lot easier to
comprehent. Also cleaned up the formatting.

The 2.0 branch had a broken Travis configuration. Fixed it and changed
links to point to 2.0 branch.

.travis.yml

@@ -6,18 +6,8 @@ os: linux
 
 env:
   global:
-    - MARIADB_URL=https://downloads.mariadb.org/interstitial/mariadb-5.5.48/bintar-linux-glibc_214-x86_64/mariadb-5.5.48-linux-glibc_214-x86_64.tar.gz/from/http%3A//mirror.netinch.com/pub/mariadb/
-    - MARIADB_TAR=mariadb-5.5.48-linux-glibc_214-x86_64.tar.gz
-    - MARIADB_DIR=mariadb-5.5.48-linux-x86_64
     - secure: "kfzqiIq1XhZ89XYsnqFhPKr5UWB+W4fYAYpOYOLgWMmqfjwqQTm1nN/A6TuFmdbTrzB6hLawsxIUrPS+QKs4TI8tTQMRZ8IZV4TIUQVa7SNQljwrKvnSu0fSoqpPrvXxjEjbTlvpo7X5EKCyCB0Xz6NaYVJIvE9bYnwCEAJw30k="
 
-
-# prepare the environment
-before_script:
-  # get mariadb packages from mariadb.org
-  - chmod +x .travis/download_mariadb.sh
-  - .travis/download_mariadb.sh
-
 # actual compilation commands
 script:
   - chmod +x .travis/build_maxscale.sh
@@ -31,6 +21,8 @@ addons:
       - libpcre3-dev
       - doxygen
       - pandoc
+      - uuid
+      - uuid-dev
   coverity_scan:
     project:
       name: "mariadb-corporation/MaxScale"

.travis/build_maxscale.sh

@@ -8,16 +8,15 @@
 
 
 echo TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR: ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}
-echo MARIADB_DIR: ${MARIADB_DIR}
 
 mkdir build
 cd build
 
-cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DMYSQL_EMBEDDED_INCLUDE_DIR=${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/${MARIADB_DIR}/include/ -DMYSQL_EMBEDDED_LIBRARIES=${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/${MARIADB_DIR}/lib/libmysqld.a -DERRMSG=${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/${MARIADB_DIR}/share/english/errmsg.sys
+cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_TESTS=Y -DBUILD_AVRO=N
 
-make VERBOSE=1
+make
+make test
 sudo make install
-sudo make testcore
 
 sudo ./postinst
 maxscale --version

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ if(WITH_MAXSCALE_CNF)
 endif()
 install(FILES server/maxscale_binlogserver_template.cnf DESTINATION ${MAXSCALE_SHAREDIR})
 install(FILES ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/COPYRIGHT DESTINATION ${MAXSCALE_SHAREDIR})
-install(FILES ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/README DESTINATION ${MAXSCALE_SHAREDIR})
+install(FILES ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/README.md DESTINATION ${MAXSCALE_SHAREDIR})
 install(FILES ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE.TXT DESTINATION ${MAXSCALE_SHAREDIR})
 install(FILES etc/lsyncd_example.conf DESTINATION ${MAXSCALE_SHAREDIR})
 install(FILES Documentation/maxscale.1 DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR}/man/man1)

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale.svg?branch=2.0)](https://travis-ci.org/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale)
+
 The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows
 forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using
 complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the
@@ -26,23 +28,27 @@ as external shared objects and are referred to as routing modules.
 An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas,
 issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
 
-  Email: maxscale@googlegroups.com
+- Email: maxscale@googlegroups.com
-  Forum: http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maxscale
+- Forum: http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maxscale
 
-Bugs can be reported in the MariaDB Corporation bugs database:
+We're also on the #maria and #maxscale channels on FreeNode.
-https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS/issues
+
+Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the [MariaDB Jira](https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS/issues).
 
 # Documentation
 
 For information about installing and using MaxScale, please refer to the
-documentation. It is in Markdown format.
+documentation. The official documentation can be found on the
+[MariaDB Knowledge Base](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/maxscale/).
 
-You can point your browser to the MaxScale project at GitHub.  Look
+- [MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Documentation](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale-20-contents/)
-inside the "Documentation" directory, where you will find a file named
+- [MariaDB MaxScale 1.4 Documentation](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale-14/maxscale-maxscale-contents/)
-Documentation-Contents.md. Click on that, and GitHub will show the
-documentation in its intended display format. The contents page lists
-the available documents and has links to them.
 
-If you do not want to rely on the internet, then clone the project
+The module and configuration documentation can be found in the _Documentation_
-from GitHub and point your browser to the Documentation-Contents.md
+directory of the source tree.
-file in your local file system and proceed as above.
+
+# Contributing Code
+
+Read the [Contributing](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/wiki/Contributing)
+page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do
+them.