Future plans for DB schema changes

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 05/16/2016 04:07 PM, Konstantin Veretennicov wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>> On 05/16/2016 12:02 PM, Dominik Ruf wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I wanted to ask what to future plan for DB schema changes are.
>>
>> We have very little confidence in the existing database migration
>> functionality.
>>
>> See the roadmap on https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/wiki/Home
> I've read the Roadmap, but I'm still missing some context.
>
> What exactly is the story with db schema? with migrations? I've been
> following Kallithea development for some time and I remember something
> about poor normalization and multi-valued fields. But perhaps the
> issues are summarized somewhere?
>
> If bad data model holds back new development, all the more reasons to
> accelerate fixing it.

The concern is not the existing schema. (Or actually it is ... but that 
is what we want to fix.)

The concern is the heavily hacked dbmigrate code that is embedded in the 
Kallithea code base.

/Mads