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+ − 1 Welcome to swallowtail!
+ − 2
+ − 3 swallowtail is a bugtracking system meant to serve as a migration path
+ − 4 for large GNATS installations. It was designed with the following
+ − 5 assumptions:
+ − 6
+ − 7 - the database and its access tools are to be installed and
+ − 8 operating on a project server somewhere such that project
+ − 9 members have shell access and outsiders have web access;
+ − 10 - that project members do not need to be baby-sat;
+ − 11 - there is a large pre-existing bug database to be imported;
+ − 12 - the pre-existing database contains fields reflecting the
+ − 13 hardcoded GNATS data semantics;
+ − 14 - hand-editing any substantial fraction of the database is
+ − 15 impossible;
+ − 16 - incoming bug reports are submitted from a deployed base of
+ − 17 legacy GNATS send-pr scripts that can be superseded in the
+ − 18 wild only gradually;
+ − 19 - that there are relatively few preexisting database access
+ − 20 tools, such that replacing them all is readily feasible;
+ − 21 - enabling sql-based access to support new and custom tools is
+ − 22 more useful and of more interest than providing canned user
+ − 23 interface features;
+ − 24 - the database is too large for manual search, but not
+ − 25 necessarily too large for manual or manually-assisted
+ − 26 indexing;
+ − 27 - that multiple types of semantic indexing will be required,
+ − 28 and that tools should not have to treat each new index
+ − 29 scheme as a fresh special case.
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+ − 31 It uses PostgreSQL for data storage. Other required software is as
+ − 32 follows:
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+ − 34 [TBD]
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