self-intro: Craig Sebenik

[Frédéric Buclin]

Craig a écrit :
>>>    - move all of data/params into the DB (???)

I'm currently against this idea. I have two use cases in mind right now:

1) When moving your Bugzilla installation to a new web server, you have 
to edit urlbase and sslbase first, to point to the new server. If you 
forget to do this on time, Bugzilla redirects you to the old web server 
and you can never update these parameters from the UI. In this case, 
it's much easier to edit data/params with a text editor than to type SQL 
commands.

2) When Bugzilla is down (e.g. for maintenance), you still want the 
content of the shutdownhtml parameter to be displayed, even if the DB 
server is down, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398075. 
This parameter must then be kept outside the DB.

And having parameters in two different places is a bad idea, offers no 
benefit and increases complexity.



>>>    - move the help pages/data into the DB
>>
>>     We generally don't want strings in the DB, it prevents
>> localization.
> 
> Couldn't that *help* localization?

No, we don't want to interact with the DB when doing l10n. The DB is not 
the right place to add human readable text.


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