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-# Parser - A MySQL Compatible SQL Parser
+# Marino - A MySQL Compatible SQL Parser
 
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+## TODO
 
-The goal of this project is to build a Golang parser that is fully compatible with MySQL syntax, easy to extend, and high performance. Currently, features supported by parser are as follows:
-
-- Highly compatible with MySQL: it supports almost all features of MySQL. For the complete details, see [parser.y](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/pkg/parser/parser.y) and [hintparser.y](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/pkg/parser/hintparser.y).
-- Extensible: adding a new syntax requires only a few lines of Yacc and Golang code changes. As an example, see [PR-680](https://github.com/pingcap/parser/pull/680/files).
-- Good performance: the parser is generated by goyacc in a bottom-up approach. It is efficient to build an AST tree with a state machine.
-
-## How to use it
-
-Please read the [quickstart](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/pkg/parser/docs/quickstart.md).
-
-## Future
-
-- Support more MySQL syntax
-- Optimize the code structure, make it easier to extend
-- Improve performance and benchmark
-- Improve the quality of code and comments
-
-## Getting Help
-
-- [GitHub Issue](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues)
-- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tidb)
-- [User Group (Chinese)](https://asktug.com/)
+<!-- TODO: fill in fork-specific details (origin of the fork, scope of changes, maintainers, support channels, etc.) -->
 
-If you have any questions, feel free to discuss in sig-ddl. Here are the steps to join:
-1. Join [TiDB Slack community](https://pingcap.com/tidbslack/), and then
-2. Join [sig-ddl Slack channel](https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=sig-ddl&ref=github_sig).
+## About
 
-## Users
-
-These projects use this parser. Please feel free to extend this list if you
-found you are one of the users but not listed here:
-
-- [pingcap/tidb](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb)
-- [XiaoMi/soar](https://github.com/XiaoMi/soar)
-- [XiaoMi/Gaea](https://github.com/XiaoMi/Gaea)
-- [sql-machine-learning/sqlflow](https://github.com/sql-machine-learning/sqlflow)
-- [nooncall/shazam](https://github.com/nooncall/shazam)
-- [bytebase/bytebase](https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase)
-- [kyleconroy/sqlc](https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc)
-- [block/spirit](https://github.com/block/spirit)
-
-## Contributing
+The goal of this project is to build a Golang parser that is fully compatible with MySQL syntax, easy to extend, and high performance. Currently, features supported by parser are as follows:
 
-Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. See [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/pingcap/community/blob/master/contributors/README.md) for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow.
+- Highly compatible with MySQL: it supports almost all features of MySQL.
+- Extensible: adding a new syntax requires only a few lines of Yacc and Golang code changes.
+- Good performance: the parser is generated by goyacc in a bottom-up approach. It is efficient to build an AST tree with a state machine.
 
 ## Acknowledgments
 
-Thanks [cznic](https://github.com/cznic) for providing some great open-source tools.
+Marino is a hard fork of [pingcap/parser](https://github.com/pingcap/parser),
+the MySQL-compatible SQL parser developed as part of [TiDB](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb).
+Huge thanks to the TiDB team and all the upstream contributors whose work this
+project is built on.
 
 ## License
-Parser is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
-
-## More resources
-
-- TiDB documentation
-
-    - [English](https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable)
-    - [简体中文](https://docs.pingcap.com/zh/tidb/stable)
-    
-- TiDB blog
 
-    - [English](https://pingcap.com/blog/)
-    - [简体中文](https://pingcap.com/blog-cn/)
+Marino is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.