[Savannah-dev] Re: database restructuring draft

[Mathieu Roy]

Stephane URBANOVSKI <address@hidden> a tapoté :

> Mathieu Roy a écrit :
> > Savannah database restructuring effort:
> > =======================================
> > At the moment we would like to talk only about the new features which
> > require the database change. The exact implementation (and the
> > reulting fields to be introduced) will be worked out once we are
> > committed to a set of features.
> > List of new features:
> > ---------------------
> > Feature: Support/Task/Patch tracker subsytems should work like the
> > bug
> >      tracker (provide configurable fields).
> 
> We also have to find a way to add i18n to the fields names and descriptions.
> It doesn't seems to bee quite easy ...

Indeed. Any thoughts?

Anyway, it's important to come up now with a common database but in
the future we will always provide scripts to update the database
whenever it changes. So it's something we can add later.
 
> Mails (for bugs,patchs,...) should use the language of the receiver
> (using its language preferences) and not the sender language as now.

People do not set a language preference but in fact I think that all
mails almost should be sent in the $sys_default_locale


> News (notably for big projects) should also have the ability to be published 
> in different language

That's interesting, somehow linked to the first point.


> Another point of reflection : What about using ldap for managing
> unix account ? I'm planing to do something like that for my own
> backend.

I do not know exactly what advantages it would have for Savannah.

Regards,

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Mathieu Roy
 
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