[rt-devel] rt2-to-rt3 status and RPM's for depenencies

[mixo]

Phil Homewood wrote:

>mixo wrote:
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>>can the
>>initial data export (dump) be started in incremental mode? I am
>>considering only
>>doing a dump from say the begining on this year, and using that instead.
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>Nope, you'll miss out on a lot of metadata that way.
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Then adding an option to collect only metadata to the export script 
would be useful. Would it
break anything though?

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>>The plan
>>would be at the end of a certain period, like a year, do a dump of the 
>>db (using the
>>db's utils) and store it somwhere, after then do the incremental dump of 
>>the past
>>month (just an example) and do a fresh rt install with data for the past 
>>month.
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>How much data are you accumulating in a year?
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The  81000+ tickets were created between 12 June 2001  and  12 May 2003, 
which is roughly
40 000 tickets per year. This is just an estimate.

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>>Emails from rt-users and rt-devel lists don't have a 'reply-to' field, which
>>means some of us will accindentally reply to inviduals and not the lists as
>>the "reply" button in some email clients pick up  the "from" field if
>>the "reply-to" one doesnt exist. I 'm one of those poeple who clicks on
>>"reply".
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>I for one am firmly against Reply-To munging, for reasons well summed
>up by Chip Rosenthal at http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html .
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>Surely Mozilla has a "List-reply" function, or at leat a "Reply-all"?
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Yep.