[csw-maintainers] progress report

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński's message of Sun Sep 11 05:41:40 -0400 2011:

> May I suggest using the buildfarm database?  If we only set up
> replication from the buildfarm to the web server, we'd be done with
> it.  If there's something the schema is lacking, we'd expand it.
> When I'm done with gcc (hopefully soon), I'll be ready to put some
> time into coding again.

This would certainly reduce the data duplication we currently have, so
I think it's a good choice.

> The buildfarm database is partly denormalized, but that's done on
> purpose.  Look into /etc/opt/csw/checkpkg.ini for credentials and
> have a look around the db tables.

Yes, 100% normalization may not be ideal for this as there would be
several heavily used tables with less than 5 objects stored.

Thanks
-Ben
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