MySQL Bugs: #55521: do we need innodb plugin release notes

Bug #55521	do we need innodb plugin release notes
Submitted:	23 Jul 2010 18:06	Modified:	18 Oct 2010 19:03
Reporter:	Mark Callaghan	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1.49	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	John Russell	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	documentation, innodb, plugin

Description:
The 5.1.49 release notes reference the InnoDB plugin release notes. The innodb plugin release notes have not been updated for 5.1.49 (1.0.10 plugin). Can these be updated? If not, the release notes should stop referencing the plugin changelog. This has been a problem on the last few releases.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes.html

How to repeat:
read the URLs

I have  removed the misleading link from the Ref Man changelog. Also added a statement on the change page for the InnoDB Plugin (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes.html) stating that subsequent updates are folded into the Ref Man changelog.

I'm setting this to "need feedback" rather than closing it, because maybe the presentation is not optimal yet.  E.g. should the changelog in the Plugin doc have a subhead so that the statement about the 1.09+ history is easier to see?  It seems easy to overlook there in the chapter intro.  Do the InnoDB items in the Ref Man changelog need to be tagged with "InnoDB:" to make them stand out more?  Is there any confusion between fixes applied in 5.1.x to the built-in InnoDB versus the Plugin?

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

In the InnoDB Plugin manual, I put the link to the Ref Man changelog under a separate heading to make it more visible.

In the Ref Man changelog for 5.1.49:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html

I put an "InnoDB Storage Engine" tag next to the InnoDB-related entries to group them together and make them stand out better.  Will spread that convention to the other 5.1 and 5.5 changelog sections.