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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
4 for large GNATS installations. It was designed with the following
5 assumptions:
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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17 legacy GNATS send-pr scripts that can be superseded in the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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