Document motivation and scope of the project

[smola]

We should be clear about motivation and scope of the project. It is important for people to understand:

• What are project goals? (e.g. creating a SQL interface to arbitrary storage backends)
• What are the intended use cases?
• What are NOT project goals? (e.g. creating a SQL database)

As the project gets more attention, this becomes important to avoid confusing users (e.g. #198).

[smola]

Note that the current description of the project is actually misleading, and users might think that by "MySQL server" we mean a drop-in replacement or something comparable at all in terms of functionality.

[ajnavarro]

Addressed part of the issue here: #207

[erizocosmico]

Perhaps the project should be go-mysql-engine instead? That would be less confusing.

[ajnavarro]

Reopen to keep the discussion about the project name @smola

[smola]

I think it's ok to keep it at the moment and avoid further breakage, but we could discuss before v1.

[erizocosmico]

Should we move this out of todo or add the blocked label, since this has no actionable tasks right now?

[smola]

@erizocosmico @ajnavarro Maybe you can just close it, the original issue is solved (documentation in README).