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Preliminary project description.
author David A. Holland
date Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:26:28 -0500
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1 Welcome to swallowtail!
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3 swallowtail is a bugtracking system meant to serve as a migration path
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4 for large GNATS installations. It was designed with the following
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5 assumptions:
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7 - the database and its access tools are to be installed and
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8 operating on a project server somewhere such that project
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9 members have shell access and outsiders have web access;
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10 - that project members do not need to be baby-sat;
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11 - there is a large pre-existing bug database to be imported;
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12 - the pre-existing database contains fields reflecting the
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13 hardcoded GNATS data semantics;
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14 - hand-editing any substantial fraction of the database is
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15 impossible;
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16 - incoming bug reports are submitted from a deployed base of
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17 legacy GNATS send-pr scripts that can be superseded in the
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18 wild only gradually;
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19 - that there are relatively few preexisting database access
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20 tools, such that replacing them all is readily feasible;
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21 - enabling sql-based access to support new and custom tools is
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22 more useful and of more interest than providing canned user
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23 interface features;
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24 - the database is too large for manual search, but not
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25 necessarily too large for manual or manually-assisted
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26 indexing;
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27 - that multiple types of semantic indexing will be required,
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28 and that tools should not have to treat each new index
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29 scheme as a fresh special case.
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31 It uses PostgreSQL for data storage. Other required software is as
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32 follows:
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34 [TBD]
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