+1 for both from me. Both will help us to deliver the quality we and the adopters await with our limited ressources.
Nils > Hi Greg, > >> I #propose that sometime within the next week I will go through all of >> our entity classes, manually specify the column lengths and fix the >> naming schemes. The column lengths will be set large enough to >> satisfy 99% of the cases (longtext, bigint) across the board. This >> will make it much easier to keep the DB schemas, and their expensive >> hand-coded indexes up to date. > > +1, and I'm willing to help review the work if you would like. > > Hank brought up an important issue at our adoption meeting this morning > that I feel strongly about as well. Having it be "well defined" as to > what we support and what we don't would be good, and minimizing our > surface area would help maintain reliability. I'm going to skip OS > discussion here and hit the db issue instead: because we use JPA it > shouldn't be hard to change DBs. But, it is, because JPA sucks and/or > is difficult to do some things in. So we still need hand coded ddl > scripts. I would like to #proposal that we switch to a single rdbms. > That we only maintain scripts for one rdbms, and that we encourage > sysadmins to just modify them as they need to for their rdbms. It > should be straight forward, but it lowers our qa needs. > > Of course, such a db would be MySQL. > > If you're voting -1 on this, we need some fresh ideas on how to > maintain the schemata over time; 1.2 was released with bugs in the ddl > which puts serious egg on our face (and potentially data loss for > people adopting!) > > NOTE: These two proposals are in one thread, so if you're voting make > it clear which you are voting for. > > Chris > -- > Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc > ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan > > Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 > Phone: 1.306.966.1442 > Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory > Department of Computer Science > University of Saskatchewan > 176 Thorvaldson Building > 110 Science Place > Saskatoon, SK > S7N 5C9 > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
