Update the base doc files a bit.

Kill some outdated ones, make information more accessable in the remaining.
Updated the AUTHORS file to point out that there're more than two.

AUTHORS

@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
+Original authors:
+
 Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
 Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>
+
+For everyone else, see git or http://www.memcached.org/about

HACKING

@@ -6,13 +6,17 @@
  - automake
  - autotools
  - libevent
+ - git
 
 * Getting Started
 
 After checking out a git repository, you must first run autogen.sh
 once in order to create the configure script.
 
-Next, run the configure script and start doing builds.
+ $ git clone git://github.com/memcached/memcached.git
+
+Next, run the configure script and start doing builds:
+ $ ./config/autorun.sh && ./configure && make && make test
 
 * Setting up Git
 

README

@@ -1,23 +1,31 @@
+Super fast totally awesome distributed memory object caching daemon.
+
+Requires a client to fully utilize, which you may research at the wiki:
+
+   http://www.memcached.org/wiki
+
+The ASCII protocol is documented in doc/protocol.txt - the newer binary
+protocol is documented on the wiki above.
+
 Dependencies:
 
    -- libevent, http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ (libevent-dev)
 
-If using Linux, you need a kernel with epoll.  Sure, libevent will
-work with normal select, but it sucks.
+Ideally you have a recent version of libevent (1.4+), and a recent OS (at
+least from the last 4 years).
 
-epoll isn't in Linux 2.4, but there's a backport at:
+QUICK INSTALL:
 
-    http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html
+ $ ./configure && make && make test && sudo make install
 
-You want the epoll-lt patch (level-triggered).
+By default memcached builds with a bundled version of libevent, to make it
+easier to build on older distributions. If you are packaging memcached or
+otherwise wish to use the libevent provided by your distro, build with:
 
-If you're using MacOS, you'll want libevent 1.1 or higher to deal with
-a kqueue bug.
+ $ ./configure --disable-bundled-libevent
 
-Also, be warned that the -k (mlockall) option to memcached might be
-dangerous when using a large cache.  Just make sure the memcached machines
-don't swap.  memcached does non-blocking network I/O, but not disk.  (it
-should never go to disk, or you've lost the whole point of it)
+Please try to ensure memcached isn't swapping. It is designed to be ultra fast
+while relying on RAM. SWAP is not necessarily RAM.
 
 The memcached website is at:
 

doc/CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 MEMCACHED CONTRIBUTORS
 
-This file contains a list of people who have contributed code and
-effort to the memcached project.  If you don't see your name mentioned
-send email to the memcached mailing list so you can be immortalized.
-
-Also see the ChangeLog for even more people who have helped over the
-years by submitting fixes, patches and reporting bugs.
-
+This is an old file describing the earliest memcached pioneers. For everyone
+else, there is the web.
 
 Major authors:
 --------------
@@ -21,25 +16,4 @@ Steven Grimm <sgrimm@facebook.com> -- iov writing (less CPU), UDP mode,
 Other Contributors
 ------------------
 
-Evan Martin <evan@danga.com>
-Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>
-Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
-Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net>
-Paul Querna <chip@corelands.com>
-Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.vg>
-Philip Neustrom <philipn@gmail.com>
-Andrew O'Brien <andrewo@oriel.com.au>
-Josh Rotenberg <joshrotenberg@gmail.com>
-Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
-Tim Yardley <liquid@haveheart.com>
-Paolo Borelli <paolo.borelli@gmail.com>
-Eli Bingham <eli@pandora.com>
-Jean-Francois Bustarret <jfbustarret@wat.tv>
-Paul G <paul-lists@perforge.com>
-Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com>
-Dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
-Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
-Chris Goffinet <goffinet@yahoo-inc.com>
-Tomash Brechko <tomash.brechko@gmail.com>
-Brian Aker <brian@tangent.org>
-Trond Norbye <trond.norbye@sun.com>
+See full authors list in git, or at: http://www.memcached.org/about