Good times happening over in this branch, for anyone interested in tracking progress or contributing: http://github.com/sbenthall/geonode/commits/welcome
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:13 PM, David Winslow <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> > -- > David Winslow > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ > -- Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
