decentralization

[C.J. Collier]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 16:11, Gervase Markham wrote:

> What advantage does having multiple bugs with the same number in an 
> individual installation give you?

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 16:09, Myk Melez wrote:

> This seems like a separate issue, and we're talking about unique 
> identifiers in a database here, not variables.  What are the benefits of 
> product/project-specific identifiers?

Perhaps the database ID shouldn't be used.  Why does the user know
anything about the data source?  Isn't that a bad thing (tm)?  Doesn't
it somewhat limit the flexibility of the installation platform?

Scoping the bug numbers to the individual project/products makes each
project/product seem a bit more homey.  It's not quite so dauntng if you
think of your particular project having only 40 bugs rather than the
hundreds of millions for all of the projects all over the internet that
use bugzilla.

Here's the question right back at you:  What's the benefit of having a
global counter for the number of bugs for all projects hosted at BMO? 
If there's a benefit, wouldn't that benefit increase if it were expanded
globally, and not just at BMO?  Shouldn't BMO and BGO share bug numbers
in this case?

What a nightmare. :)

namaste,

C.J., who is going to bed, and who will answer more fan mail tomorrow
after hugging his mother, step-mother and grandmothers as well as
spending time with his girlfriend.

Happy Mothers' day!