Re: [Mantisbt-dev] Volunteering t document Mantis database

[Jeroen L. <jl...@ca...>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:44:52 +0100, Matthias Boege <pro...@we...> wrote:

> almost half a year ago I had a brief mail thread with Ken regarding 
> documentation of the Mantis database; he suggested to send mail to this 
> forum, doing herewith slightly delayed :-)
>
> What I can offer in case you are interested is fully documenting (with 
> your input) the database model of Mantis. Result will be full web 
> documentation (*.html) and MS Word document (*.rtf). We use Mantis for 
> our internal software development at my employer, and we use it 
> massively in our group(s). My developers and our internal clients love 
> it, so why not give something back in return? I'd love to help 
> development by contributing that material.
>
> So, interested? If so I can provide some basic examples before putting 
> full work in. I'd do a basic reverse engineering of the DB with hardly 
> any table or variable comments, but still the result should be good.

Some samples might be nice, but it sounds like a good addition to our 
design documentation. We'll still have to keep it updated of course...

Jeroen