[Chandler-dev] Dividing schema changes

Morgen Sagen morgen at osafoundation.org
Wed Sep 6 09:45:17 PDT 2006


On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> It seems like we've reached a point where schema changes that affect
> data definitions are relatively rare.  I'm wondering if it would be
> worthwhile for dogfooders if we made our schema change system more  
> fine
> grained?
>
> Bryan and I had a conversation this morning about distinguishing  
> between
> three different types of schema changes:
>
> A) to data, which would be destructive until PJE's schema evolution is
> up and running
> B) to index definitions, which would require re-indexing existing  
> items
> but wouldn't cause items to be lost
> C) UI schema changes, that could be handled by rebuilding the UI

Sounds good.  I think you're suggesting separate version numbers for  
A, B and C then, right?



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