Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> I don't know how the database is structured,

All gentoo data except ..

 - log/batch entries
 - machine UUIDs

.. are in separate tables.  About 30 of them or so.

You can run

  # python database-admin.py  --fake-mysql create

in ./smoon/ to get all the table definitions printed.
Alternatively, I could send you a copy of that, just ask.


> but database backups of
> gentoo-specific data would be nice to have. Simplest after that would
> be for it to then just be stored on your dev.gentoo.org account (once
> you're recruited ;). I believe dev.gentoo.org home directories are
> part of the gentoo-infra backup system.

I guess my concerns were more about getting the data of the DB and
transfered in a well-organized manner.

Mike, can you imagine a way to do that best?


> I've actually been pondering that for a long time now, but I've been lazy :p
> 
> There are lots of improvements in the current upstream release. I'll
> try to do the upgrade sometime this week, but it may take longer if
> there are db migration problems.

Okay, cool.

Have you seen the Redmine ebuild in Bugzilla [1] or are you using that
already?


>> Also I'd really like to see more reviews, alchemy mentoring and
>> contributions from others.
> 
> The key to that is to get a wider audience. Right now your audience is
> limited to gentoo-soc + parts of gentoo-dev. If you could manage to
> (say) get it into the handbooks as a recommended package, and/or into
> the 10.0 release DVD, you'd get a flurry of activity w.r.t new users
> and hence new contributors.

I think that will not work as that's stuff that need to be done before
deploying the "real thing".  That's a chicken-and-egg thing, it seems.



Sebastian


[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260575