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redmine database description

Added by Slava Vdovichenko over 14 years ago

Hi guys,

First of all, I must say Redmine is a great project and we use it for tracking defects and features. Second of all, I am not sure if I am politically correct here since I'm a developer not a lawyer as one can consider my idea as an invasion.

We'm working on a project called Documento that have a goal to make database development real agile and real collaborative. Recently we released a new version and I think redmine can probably benefit from it as an open source project. The idea of Document is to have an extensive description of data dictionary that will help to answer questions and help developers in future. In documento one can define any number of fields to have a structured description for database, table, column, then reverse engineer a physical database, and let everybody (or limit it to the team of contributors) to pupulate description. As I mentioned before I'm not sure if I have a right to import redmine database into open database repository, but since it
is open source project I think getting description for the tables can be my contribution for using redmine.

Link to redmine project in dbmaster repository http://dbmaster.branegy.com/#project:Redmine (user redmine/redmine has a right to modify description). Another project with description we have is http://dbmaster.branegy.com/#project:AdventureWorks

Looking forward to hear you thoughts.
Slava


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RE: redmine database description - Added by Felix Schäfer over 14 years ago

Hello Slava,

I'm not sure how useful this is for Redmine (or any Rails project, that is), because Rails uses ActiveRecord, which is an advanced ORM (ORM on Wikipedia), and "humans" don't have much interaction with the database other than through ActiveRecord objects.

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