[Mantisbt-dev] RE: volunteering to document Mantis database

[Matthias B. <pro...@we...>]

Hi,

let me then try to get the full data model documented as much as I can. As I
need information I'll post a message. Taking the number of tables etc. into
account, I guess it is 2 days of effort until I'm stuck on those I don't
know. I should get back to this list posting my question catalog within the
next 2 weeks then.

It is not so much to document what goes into a variable or table, but also
documenting any rule that applies as well: due to the system not using
stored procedures / triggers etc., you implement "must do this way" rules in
PHP since mysql does not support to tie your business logic to the
database - okay, apart from the fact that stored procedures and triggers can
be quite slow ;-) Having those rules (should there be any) documented is the
most important as this will be documented nowhere else, things like "when
adding an entry to this table, an entry must be added to another table as
well".

I was referring to the mail list flexibility, I guess it is more my free
mail provider and bloody Outlook Express that introduce escape sequences for
line breaks and any special character in mails. Making it a bit slower to
read and understand ;-)

Cheers,
Matthias