[Teammetrics-discuss] Upload/Bugs data

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:06:36AM +0530, Vipin Nair wrote:
> I also wanted to know the wisdom of keeping this data as a python
> dictionary instead of a config file. I am assuming this is so because
> there are only few data points.
> 
> I am referring to:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=teammetrics/teammetrics.git;a=blob;f=upload_history.py;h=d86277b97bdac166fa58b5db6ac02ca01c42512c;hb=70d05b3e18b567c44c80d5f1bbfbbb3b8191e23f#l10
> 
> I just wanted to know if the data in the above python dictionary could
> be retrieved from the database so that keeping this data in code could
> be avoided.

I'd be happy if you extract this data into either a SQL table or config
file.  This was just a quick hack and there is no point in keeping this
inside the Python code.
 
> > query is a bit more complex than your trials below - but they are read
> > for use.  Please keep on asking if you need more precise advise.  Please
> > test the test queries inside the *.sql files if you have trouble
> > understanding what they are doing.
> 
> Yes, I have gone through this file. I am using this to retrieve the
> bugs and uploads data. This part is *completely* done. the only work I
> have to do now is the get the data as in the above URL. Either it
> could be added in the config file or it could be retrieved from code
> or it could be kept in the code itself as in the above URL. Keeping
> that in code does not seem appropriate to me.
> 
> So I'll do one thing, I'll move this data to the config file in
> web/config/metrics.conf and read it from there.

Perfectly fine.  Please also update the Python script to rather use this
config file to make sure we have no duplication of data. 

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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