On 07/14/2010 02:06 PM, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> One thing i forgot to mention:
>
> With the removal of the Featured Map from the home page and the 
> combining of the "CAPRA Maps" and "Community Maps" tabs into a single 
> view, there is no longer a use for the 'featured' and 'endorsed' 
> fields on the Map model.
>
> So I think we should remove them.
>
> Possible reasons NOT to remove them: somebody wants to do something 
> with these properties in a specific custom instance;
That person can jump through some JOIN-shaped hoops.  I don't think we 
should include things in GeoNode that aren't being used by an actual 
deployment.
> it's a pain to do a database migration.
In a real database, dropping a column is easy (although not automated by 
Django, barring an extension like South).  In sqlite (used on the demo 
at geonode.capra.opengeo.org) it is impossible; you have to dump the 
data and rebuild the database.  But that kind of offline massaging is 
also required for some other changes currently in discussion (see the 
thread on background layers which has evolved into a discussion of 
projections in map configurations).  So I am +1 on dropping the 
'featured' bit.
>
> Neither of these reasons seem particularly strong, but I wanted to ask 
> first.
>

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David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

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