Hey Jesse,
I am gonna fork a new branch tonight and get started on this change.
Hopefully should be able to get the relevant stuff that we have
already
done merged on the core modules before we start playing with the
other
modules tomorrow :-)
Cheers,
Rahul
Jesse McConnell wrote:
> I am loathe to let a branch lay around for a long time with minimal
> work being done actively on it and we learned what we wanted to
> from
> it in the short time we worked with it I think.
>
> my take-away was that the change the string based keys will be a
> good
> change but its large enough that it should be done in the context
> of
> some other refactoring and changes.
>
> as for the int->long id change, I think its a good thing and will
> focus us to address the database upgrading issue so its all good
> imo
> :)
>
> jesse
>
> On 1/16/07, Rahul Thakur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Jesse and myself had a chat yesterday morning about the
>> key-refactoring
>> branch that we spun before Christmas last year, and we reckon that
>> it
>> might be an idea to get 1.1-alpha rolling and meantime gather more
>> thoughts around Groupings (introduce versions/tags). We think
>> having
>> String-based keys for groups might be more feasible for v1.2.
>>
>> However, we are keen to bring over the API changes where the 'int'
>> Ids
>> are now converted to 'long'. Some other bits like breaking up the
>> existing Project and ProjectGroup interfaces can be continued on
>> the
>> trunk itself after the merge.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rahul
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jesse McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <continuum-dev@maven.apache.org>
>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 8:30 AM
>> Subject: short term branch for project/group keys
>>
>>
>> >I am thinking about pulling a short term branch of continuum with
>> > rahul and working on getting everything converted to using a
>> > string
>> > based key project and project group reference in all apis and in
>> > all
>> > of the UI decision making items. He has tomorrow off so I think
>> > that
>> > unless anyone has any big issues with it we'll try and make that
>> > branch and work on it tomorrow.
>> >
>> > the end result of it would be:
>> >
>> > * int id's for project and project group in the model are for
>> > internal
>> > store usage
>> > * name's for project and project group are for presentation
>> > purposes
>> > only
>> > * key's are for all api usage and passing around un URL's etc.
>> >
>> > some quick benefits are:
>> >
>> > * consistency across all apis and url manipulations
>> > * ability to add quick url rewriting for direct linking of
>> > projects
>> > foo.org/Doxia/Core
>> > * common keys across running continuum instances for clustering
>> >
>> > jesse
>> >
>> > --
>> > jesse mcconnell
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>
>
