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Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> I don't know how the database is structured, |
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All gentoo data except .. |
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- log/batch entries |
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- machine UUIDs |
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.. are in separate tables. About 30 of them or so. |
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You can run |
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# python database-admin.py --fake-mysql create |
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in ./smoon/ to get all the table definitions printed. |
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Alternatively, I could send you a copy of that, just ask. |
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> but database backups of |
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> gentoo-specific data would be nice to have. Simplest after that would |
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> be for it to then just be stored on your dev.gentoo.org account (once |
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> you're recruited ;). I believe dev.gentoo.org home directories are |
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> part of the gentoo-infra backup system. |
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I guess my concerns were more about getting the data of the DB and |
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transfered in a well-organized manner. |
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Mike, can you imagine a way to do that best? |
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> I've actually been pondering that for a long time now, but I've been lazy :p |
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> There are lots of improvements in the current upstream release. I'll |
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> try to do the upgrade sometime this week, but it may take longer if |
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> there are db migration problems. |
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Okay, cool. |
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Have you seen the Redmine ebuild in Bugzilla [1] or are you using that |
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already? |
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>> Also I'd really like to see more reviews, alchemy mentoring and |
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>> contributions from others. |
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> The key to that is to get a wider audience. Right now your audience is |
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> limited to gentoo-soc + parts of gentoo-dev. If you could manage to |
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> (say) get it into the handbooks as a recommended package, and/or into |
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> the 10.0 release DVD, you'd get a flurry of activity w.r.t new users |
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> and hence new contributors. |
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I think that will not work as that's stuff that need to be done before |
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deploying the "real thing". That's a chicken-and-egg thing, it seems. |
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Sebastian |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260575 |
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