Merge pull request #711 from cole-miller/readme-remove-build-raft

Update README

.github/workflows/packages.yml

@@ -28,11 +28,9 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get update -qq
           sudo apt-get install -qq debhelper devscripts gnupg
 
-    - name: Work around GPG issue
-      run: |
-          mkdir -p ~/.gnupg
-          echo "pinentry-mode loopback" >~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
-
+      # Note for future maintainers: the secret key should be stored
+      # in the GHA secret in ASCII-armored form, and must not be
+      # password-protected.
     - name: Setup GPG signing key
       env:
           PPA_SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.PPA_SECRET_KEY }}

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 # Contributing to dqlite
 
-The dqlite team welcomes external contributions via GitHub pull
-requests. To get your PR merged, you need to sign [Canonical's
-contributor license agreement (CLA)][cla]. This is straightforward to
-do once you have an account on [Launchpad][lp]; if you don't, you can
-create one [here][signup].
+The dqlite team welcomes contributions via GitHub pull requests. To get your PR
+merged, you need to sign [Canonical's contributor license agreement
+(CLA)][cla]. This is straightforward to do once you have an account on
+[Launchpad][lp]; if you don't, you can create one [here][signup].
 
 [cla]: https://ubuntu.com/legal/contributors
 [lp]: https://launchpad.net

README.md

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ library and headers as follows:
 
 ```
 $ autoreconf -i
-$ ./configure --enable-build-raft
+$ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
 ```
@@ -112,13 +112,9 @@ to enable the linker to find `libdqlite.so`. To install to a different prefix,
 replace the configure step with something like
 
 ```
-$ ./configure --enable-build-raft --prefix=/usr
+$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
 ```
 
-The `--enable-build-raft` option causes dqlite to use its bundled Raft
-implementation instead of linking to an external libraft; the latter is a
-legacy configuration that should not be used for new development.
-
 Building for static linking
 ---------------------------
 
@@ -141,7 +137,7 @@ The `contrib/build-static.sh` script demonstrates building and
 testing dqlite with all dependencies (including libc) statically
 linked.
 
-Usage Notes
+Usage notes
 -----------
 
 Detailed tracing will be enabled when the environment variable