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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On March 10, 2010, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> > Hi Stuart.
> >
> > I am having a moment of uncertainty. I want to add new karmaactions and
> > a new karmacategory for the registry. I think there is something
> > fundamentally wrong with karma (and celebrities). But I may be confused.
> >
> > I was using a patch to add the new data and I had to hardcode the serial
> > to avoid a constraint violation with karmaaction_pkey. Edwin explained
> > that the problem was not my patch, but that sampledata was loaded after
> > the patch was applied.
> >
> > I think that instead of writing a patch, I should provide a migration
> > script that can be run on dev to make the current.sql and
> > current-dev.sql, and then run in staging and production. This sounds
> > somewhat risky, and we do not want to create new sampledata.
>
> Yes, that's how I did way back when I added the answers karma category.

Yup. We generally want to add the new data to production before the code lands, or edge and/or staging might explode.

The Karma stuff very nearly was an enum, but it was thought we might want to edit this information through the web UI to fine tune scores etc.


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