On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are some other factors which can force such decisions.  An
> EPerson who has contributed an item cannot be deleted, because the
> EPerson tuple is pinned by a foreign-key reference from an Item tuple.
> Such accounts could be disabled after a time, but the database schema
> will not let us remove them, by design.

There's an app^H bug for that:
https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-42

> Should DSpace also track a last-contribution date?  This would require
> a schema change, and thus could not go in before 4.0.

Why? This would be an unnecessary denormalization. This is already
expressed in the data model by the foreign key relationship.

Regards,
~~helix84

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