[Savannah-dev] Re: Database structure + other questions

[Mathieu Roy]

Marco Mambelli <address@hidden> a tapoté :

> Hi,
> I'm working on a local installation of savannah and I'm experiencing
> some problems with the MySQL database:
> 
> some tables seems to be missing (filemodule, user_preferences, ?); I'd
> like to create them. The open patch 582 seems to create some of them
> but not all.
> 
> Is it there a description or a dump (savannah.xml) of the database
> structure?

Normally there is a complete dump. See READMEs in savannah/db/

> 
> The other questions: -is it there a way to know who submitted a new
> project request (if he is not adding his name in the
> comments/project description)? In order to know it and to add the
> requestor as project administrator.

This is done automatically.


> 
> -each news seems to originate a new discussion forum, is it true?
> (I'm trayin to reactivate the forums in my installation)

Yes it is. The forum tools has been deactivated. Some times ago I
tried to reactivated but we have apparently lot of work to do to get
it coherent with other savannah features.
> 
> -do you have any suggestion on how/where to link existing mailing
> lists to the project pages (Generic mailing lists: they could be on
> different hosts and not mailman based)?

They can be on different hosts (it's the case on savannah ; mailing
list are managed by mail.gnu.org with is a different computer). And
probably can be not mailman based, but we have tested that yet.


Regards,



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